Publications by authors named "Christina L Diller"
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- The study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of the AAP's CCHD screening algorithm in newborns and explore the potential of an alternative approach.
- The AAP algorithm resulted in a very high specificity (99.96%) but low sensitivity (14.3%), indicating that it correctly identified most healthy infants while missing many cases of congenital heart disease.
- Simulations of a modified screening method suggested it could maintain sensitivity while slightly increasing the false-positive rate, potentially improving the detection of significant newborn diseases.
A 55-year-old man developed hypertension and acute epigastric pain during dobutamine-atropine stress echocardiography (DASE). Evaluation-including a helical computed tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen and pelvis, as well as surgical exploration-revealed a ruptured splenic artery aneurysm. The patient died, despite multiple surgical interventions and a massive blood product transfusion.
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