Publications by authors named "I el Rassi"
Midterm Outcomes of Endovascular Pulmonary Artery Debanding in Children.
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv
January 2025
Background: Pulmonary artery banding (PAB) palliates pulmonary over-circulation, while endovascular debanding (ED) offers a less invasive alternative to repeat surgery.
Objectives: To evaluate our experience with ED.
Aims: Retrospective review of single-center data (2015-2023) on children with single, multiple, or "Swiss-cheese" muscular ventricular septal defects (MVSDs) undergoing ED.
Article Synopsis
- Tetralogy of Fallot with an absent pulmonary valve is a rare heart problem where some important parts of the heart are not properly formed, leading to serious issues.
- The study looked at 300 patients over ten years, finding 18 who had this specific issue, and they learned how it affects them and how doctors manage it.
- Most patients were diagnosed very young, and while surgery helped many, they still had some health problems afterwards, but no one died from the surgery.
Word of caution: early life-threatening complication linked to pulmonary flow restrictors.
Eur J Cardiothorac Surg
September 2024
A 2-month-old female (3.4 kg, 50 cm) with Down syndrome and left-to-right shunting congenital heart defects underwent an unsuccessful transcatheter ductal closure, followed by bilateral implantation of manually modified microvascular plugs (MVP-9Q) from Medtronic (Minneapolis, MN, USA), used as pulmonary flow restrictors. Post-procedure, she developed febrile respiratory distress, leading to admission to the intensive care unit.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCongenital Blood Cyst of a Child: A case report and review of literature.
Sultan Qaboos Univ Med J
May 2024
Blood-filled cysts of the heart valves are frequently reported at postpartum autopsies of infants. They are seen as round nodules mostly in the paediatric age group in infants less than 2 months of age and disappear spontaneously within 6 months of life. We report a unique case of an 11-month-old girl who presented at a tertiary healthcare hospital in 2022 with a blood-filled cyst on the posterior leaflet of the pulmonary valve that was successfully treated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: Pulmonary artery banding serves as an important palliative procedure used for the management of several congenital heart lesions. This study aims to describe a 20-year experience of pulmonary artery banding at a tertiary care center in a developing country.
Methods: This is a retrospective chart review of patients who underwent pulmonary artery banding over a 20-year period between January 2000 and July 2020 in a tertiary care center in a developing country.