Evaluation of left ventricular functions with two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) and N-terminal ProBNP in diabetic children.

Şimşek A, Turan Ö, Çiftel M, Kardelen F, Durmaz E, Özdem S, Akçurin G, Ertuğ H. Evaluation of left ventricular functions with twodimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography (2D-STE) and N-terminal ProBNP in diabetic children. Turk J Pediatr 2018; 60: 633-641.

Investigation of endothelial dysfunction and arterial stiffness in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus and the association with diastolic dysfunction.

Objective: The objective of this study is to investigate endothelial dysfunction (ED) and arterial stiffness (AS) and determine the association with diastolic dysfunction in children with type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM).

Methods: A total of 42 patients without diabetic complications (mean age: 13.21 years) and 40 healthy (mean age: 13.

Chest pain with myocardial ischemia in a child: should we think about coronary slow flow phenomenon?

The coronary slow flow phenomenon (CSFP) is an angiographic finding characterized by delayed opacification of epicardial coronary arteries in the absence of stenotic lesion. Herein, we present a 13-year-old boy with recurrent chest pain who was diagnosed with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction associated with CSFP, which has not been reported previously in the pediatric age group. Coronary angiography revealed only the presence of slow flow in the left anterior descending (LAD) coronary artery.

Assessment of early-onset chronic progressive anthracycline cardiotoxicity in children: different response patterns of right and left ventricles.

We aimed to assess early-onset chronic progressive cardiotoxicity in the left and right ventricles with increasing cumulative anthracycline doses. We evaluated 72 patients within the first year after doxorubicin and/or daunorubicin treatment (median 1.3 months; range 0.