Morbidity in congenital heart surgery in a public hospital in Argentina.

Objective: To describe the complications associated with heart surgery, compare them to a reference population, and identify mortality risk factors.

Patients And Methods: Retrospective and descriptive study. All patients who underwent surgery at Hospital Garrahan in the 2013-2015 period were included.

Therapeutic monitoring of pediatric transplant patients with conversion to generic tacrolimus.

Objective: Therapeutic monitoring during interchange of tacrolimus commercial formulations is essential to ensure similar exposure in transplant patients. However, there are limited data in the pediatric transplant population. This study aims to evaluate exposure, safety and efficacy in maintenance pediatric transplant patients under generic tacrolimus substitution.

[Congenital heart disease: surgical results in a public hospital in Argentina].

Objective: To describe the results of congenital heart surgery at the Hospital de Pediatría J. P.Garrahan.

Clinical experience with Berlin Heart Excor in pediatric patients in Argentina: 1373 days of cardiac support.

The objective of this study was to describe our experience (1373 days of support) with the Berlin Heart Excor (BH) ventricular-assist device (VAD) as bridging to cardiac transplantation in pediatric patients with end-stage cardiomyopathy. This study involved a retrospective observational cohort. Records of patients supported with the BH VAD were reviewed.

[Cardiac surgical repair in newborns: five years' experience in neonatal open surgery].

Introduction: Four hundred newborns die every year in our country suffering from congenital heart disease. Definitive surgical repair, whenever possible, is nowadays the optimal therapeutic strategy. Our goal is to describe mortality and morbidity in neonatal surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass in a tertiary public hospital in Argentina.

[Levosimendan, a new inotropic drug: experience in children with acute heart failure].

Introduction: Low cardiac output syndrome occurs frequently in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery. Catecholamines are used as inotropic drugs to treat this threatening condition, but may cause undesirable and potentially harmful side effects. This study was performed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of levosimendan (LEVO) in pediatric patients with low cardiac output syndrome.

Successful surgical treatment of a 4-month infant after exsanguination for aortoesophageal fistula.

We report on the case of a 4-month infant in hypovolemic shock for severe digestive hemorrhage 38 days after surgical treatment of a double aortic arch who underwent a successful emergency thoracotomy for suspicion of an aortoesophageal fistula.