[Management of aortic recoarctation by transluminal balloon angioplasty in childhood].

Recoarctation balloon angioplasty is an interventional technique for the treatment of restenosis of the aortic isthmus after surgery. At present it is the treatment of choice prior to surgery. Authors report their experience with the first 30 patients in this country.

The use of an internal mammary artery for creating a systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunt.

We report on two patients who had systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts created by the use of the internal mammary artery (IMA). The first patients was operated on more then 30 years ago (the case has never been published) and the second one move recently. We give a brief summary of the ten cases of the same operation published so far, and emphasize the usefulness of the IMA that stays open despite the initially poor run-off and is capable of supplying increasing amounts of blood to the growing pulmonary arteries.

[Non-invasive and invasive assessment of the function of aortic valve homografts in infancy and childhood].

Study population involved 21 pts with complex congenital heart disease after corrective surgery using homografts between the years 1986 and 1992. Diagnoses included double outlet right ventricle, tetralogy of Fallot, transposition of great arteries, truncus arteriosus, pulmonary atresia with VSD, corrected transposition with pulmonary stenosis, and absent pulmonary valve. Pts age at surgery ranged from 18 days--to 15 yrs mean, 6.

[Giant coronary thrombus as a complication of Kawasaki disease].

We report the case of a 3 yrs old boy with the most serious complication of Kawasaki disease. 2 dimensional echocardiography detected multiple coronary aneurysms and in the giant left coronary aneurysm a thrombus formation. The thrombus disappeared after one week anticoagulant therapy.