[Determination of heart parameters in correction of congenital heart defects].

The work deals with determination of the heart parameters prior to and during correction of congenital heart diseases. Analysis of the cardiometric values of 67 normally formed hearts of children aged 0 days to 12 years revealed the most intimate correlative connections with the highest coefficient of multiple determination between heart parameters in all age groups. The connection between some parameters is lost after the age of 3 years.

[Diagnosis and treatment of the respiratory distress syndrome during surgery in children under artificial circulation].

The authors examined 152 children with congenital heart diseases complicated by pulmonary hypertension. 109 patients were operated on under conditions of hypothermic perfusion and 43--under deep hypothermia with extracorporeal circulation. Combination of disturbed mechanics of respiration and gas exchange was determined as the respiratory distress syndrome.