Looking through the crystal ball feasibility of tele-echocardiography using smart glasses in neonates: a pilot study.

Background: In recent years, the importance of telemedicine has increased significantly. Especially in the field of echocardiography, virtual reality glasses offer the possibility of real-time data transmission without restrictions in the examination process. In particular, the care of critically ill newborns with suspected CHD might be improved by allowing a specialized paediatric cardiologist to remotely guide an echocardiographic examination.

Prognostic Value of Speckle Tracking Echocardiography-Derived Strain in Unmasking Risk for Arrhythmias in Children with Myocarditis.

Risk assessment in pediatric myocarditis is challenging, particularly when left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is preserved. This study aimed to evaluate LV myocardial deformation using speckle-tracking echocardiography (STE)-derived longitudinal +strain (LS) and assessed its diagnostic and prognostic value in children with myocarditis. Retrospective STE-derived layer-specific LV LS analysis was performed on echocardiograms from patients within the multicenter, prospective registry for pediatric myocarditis "MYKKE".

[Pericardial effusion. Differential diagnostics, surveillance and treatment].

Cardiac tamponade can be a life-threatening condition due to the high variability of clinical symptoms and the associated risk of rapid hemodynamic deterioration. Therefore, accurate diagnosis followed by immediate intervention is necessary. Common clinical features of cardiac tamponade are pulsus paradoxus, tachycardia, elevated jugular venous pressure and hypotension; however, although these can be indicative of cardiac tamponade they are non-specific.

Outcomes up to 5 years after severe, acute respiratory failure.

Study Objective: To use an existing database from a large cohort study with follow-up as long as 5.5 years to assess the extended prognosis of patients who survived their hospitalizations for severe acute respiratory failure (ARF).

Design, Setting, And Patients: Secondary analysis of an inception cohort of 1,722 patients with ARF requiring mechanical ventilation from five major medical centers who were entered into the prospective Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatment.

[Mandibular condyle fractures in childhood--the clinico-roentgenological follow-up].

In a clinical and roentgenographical follow-up study in 35 children, who had suffered a fracture of the condylar process of the lower jaw, the following observations were made on the average 61 months after conservative treatment: The clinical outcome ranged from "satisfactory function" to "restitutio ad integrum". Best results were achieved after unilateral displaced fractures, while only few children showed a "restitutio ad integrum" after bilateral fractures or/and after fracture dislocations. In children, who were less than 8 years old, the results were much better than in older ones.

Standardized quantitative high resolution CT in lung diseases.

Twenty-seven patients with diffuse fibrosing alveolitis (DFA), 27 patients with granulomatous lung disease (GLD), 3 patients with homozygous alpha 1-proteinase inhibitor deficiency (alpha 1-PID), and 6 healthy volunteers (C) were studied using thin section high resolution CT (HRCT) at 50% of actual vital capacity (VC), determined and controlled spirometrically during each exposure. A fast contour tracing algorithm was used to isolate the lung parenchyma followed by a quantitative histogram analysis of the frequencies of CT values. Mean CT values enabled us to discriminate significantly between the groups of C and alpha 1-PID.