Objective: The aim of our study is to determine the relationship between exposure to hemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus and morbidities in premature babies, the optimal number of pharmacologic treatment cycles, and ideal ductus ligation timing.
Materials And Methods: The study was a retrospective single-center study conducted in a 3-year period between July 2017 and June 2020. Premature babies, born ≤30 weeks of gestation and transferred to our unit for bedside ductus ligation, were included in the study.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the radiation dose, image quality, and diagnostic accuracy of prospective ECG-gated cardiac CT at 70 kV and adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction (ASIR), with a single source, 512 slice MDCT in the diagnosis of complex congenital heart disease in infants. We retrospectively evaluated 47 infants (ages 1 day to 353 days) with prospective ECG-gated cardiac CT that was performed on a single source 512 slice CT at low tube voltage (70 kV) using a wide detector aperture, adaptive statistical iterative reconstruction algorithm (ASIR), and specific reconstruction software reducing coronary motion artifacts (SnapShot Freeze). All cardiac images were obtained during the first pass of contrast material through the anatomic structures of interest and the targets for the center of the acquisition window were set 45% of the R-R interval during one cardiac cycle without sedation and breath-hold.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: We aimed to validate the vasoactive-ventilation-renal (VVR) score and to compare it with other indices as a predictor of outcome in neonates recovering from surgery for critical congenital heart disease. We also sought to determine the optimal time at which the VVR score should be measured.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed neonates recovering from cardiac surgery between July 2017 and June 2020.
We aimed to investigate Fontan associated liver disease in children by shear wave elastography (SWE). This is a single-center, prospective case-control study included 41 patients with Fontan physiology and 30 healthy controls. Hepatic and splenic shear wave elasticity values were exhibited both as kPa and m/s.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGlenn followed by Fontan are still the main two procedures for the treatment of patients with single ventricle. Some patients may be challenging due to unfavorable cardiopulmonary anatomy. In this report, we present Glenn shunt procedure in a patient with single pulmonary artery and congenitally agenetic lung.
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