Procedural outcomes of percutaneous closure of perimembranous and other ventricular septal defects using Konar-MF occluder and short-term follow-up.

Introduction: The study aims to assess the procedural outcomes and follow-up after transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects (VSDs) in children utilizing the Konar-MF™ occluder (Lifetech Scientific, Shenzhen, PRC) device.

Materials And Methods: Clinical features, demographic characteristics, and follow-up findings of children undergoing percutaneous VSD device closure were retrospectively analyzed from the medical records.

Results: Fifty-seven patients underwent VSD closure using the Konar-MF occluder between January 2019 and April 2023.

Hyperviscosity syndrome revisited.

Secondary erythrocytosis occurs in cyanotic heart disease as a physiological response to chronic hypoxia, and this leads to hyperviscosity and various complications of the same. Microvascular stasis due to hyperviscosity results in symptoms including headache, fatigue, paraesthesia, and loss of vision. An important and dreadful feature of hyperviscosity is overt thrombosis in organ systems, resulting in cerebrovascular accident and myocardial infarction.

Polymer composites from natural fibers and recycled waste surgical masks during COVID-19 pandemic.

The crucial role of face masks is highlighted in our day-to-day life during the COVID-19 pandemic. Polypropylene (PP)-based disposable face masks are widely used to hold back viral transmission. The discarded masks can create a huge burden of contamination on the environment.

Transcatheter closure of ventricular septal defects in children less than 10 kg: experience from a tertiary care referral hospital in Eastern India.

Objective: To assess the feasibility of percutaneous transcatheter device closure of ventricular septal defects in children weighing less than 10 kg.

Background: Although percutaneous transcatheter device closure of ventricular septal defect is a well-established method of treatment in older children and adolescents, there is limited data on device closure in small children weighing less than 10 kg. We present our institutional experience of transcatheter VSD closure in children weighing less than 10 kg.

Development of a reduced-graphene-oxide based superparamagnetic nanocomposite for the removal of nickel (II) from an aqueous medium via a fluorescence sensor platform.

Reduced-graphene-oxide based superparamagnetic nanocomposite (GC) was fabricated and applied for the remediation of Ni(II) from an aqueous medium. The as-prepared GC was extensively characterized by Raman, TEM, AFM, SEM-EDX, SQUID, and BET analyses. Quantitative immobilization of Ni(II) in an aqueous solution by the fluorescent sensor platform of GC was explored at varying pH, doses, contact times, and temperatures.

A case of male goltz syndrome.

We present the case of a boy with a clinical diagnosis of Goltz syndrome (focal dermal hypoplasia), a rare genodermatosis characterized by widespread dysplasia of mesodermal and ectodermal tissues. A 9-year-old male patient with Goltz syndrome presented with typical skin lesions along with progressive dimness of vision and mental retardation since birth. It is inherited in an X-linked dominant fashion and is normally lethal in male patients, and so very few male patients, like the index case, have been reported.

A case of antley-bixler syndrome.

Antley-Bixler syndrome (ABS) is rare form of craniosynostosis of both autosomal dominant and autosomal recessive inheritance. We are reporting a female term appropriate for gestational age newborn with clinical features of frontal bossing, brachycephaly, proptosis, synostosis of radioulnar joints, hemangioma over nose and philtrum, hydrocephalus suggestive of ABS.