Aortopexy offers surgical options for a variety of pathological tracheal conditions in paediatric patients.

Objectives: Aortopexy is widely used; however, many surgeons still regard it with suspicion. To date, there are only a few large series and minimal long-term data. Against this background, our goal was to report our experience, particularly with regard to the recent expansion of indications and modification of diagnostic routine and surgical strategy.

The right ventricular response to high afterload: comparison between healthy persons and patients with transposition of the great arteries: a 2D strain study.

Objective: To evaluate the contraction pattern of the systemic right ventricle (RV) in comparison to healthy controls.

Methods: 31 patients (14 female, mean age 21.5 ± 3.

Pancarditis in a five-year-old boy affecting tricuspid valve and ventricular septum.

A five-year-old boy with a structurally normal heart and recent history of adenotomy and gastroenteritis presented with Staphylococcus aureus pancarditis including endocarditis of the tricuspid valve and abscess of the ventricular septum. Surgical treatment consisted of debridement of the valvar vegetations and of the septal abscess. A seven-day continuous mediastinal irrigation with iodine solution was conducted to eliminate local infection sites as well as to prevent from constrictive pericarditis.

Myocardial ischaemia in a child infected with influenza B.

Cardiac involvement is a rare complication of infection by the influenza B virus. It usually presents with ventricular dysfunction, arrhythmias, or both. We report a 13-year-old boy with clinical, electrocardiographic, and laboratory findings of myocardial ischaemia during an otherwise silent acute infection with influenza B.

Magnetic resonance-guided placement of atrial septal closure device in animal model of patent foramen ovale.

Background: Percutaneous closure of the patent foramen ovale (PFO) is usually performed under x-ray in combination with ultrasound guidance. We tested the feasibility of applying magnetic resonance (MR) guidance for percutaneous closure of PFO in an animal model, thus avoiding the disadvantage of ionizing radiation.

Methods And Results: Real-time MRI with radial or spiral k-space filling (15 frames per second) on an interventional 1.