[Surgical treatment of partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage].

Objectives: We studied all patients operated for partial anomalous pulmonary venous drainage and half-time follow-up.

Materials And Methods: Twenty-eight patients with a mean age of 5 +/- 5 years (5 patients were less than 1 year old). There were sixteen male and twelve female patients.

[Propafenone efficacy in preventing supraventricular tachycardia in childhood].

Objectives: In order to study the efficiency of oral dose of propafenone in preventing childhood supraventricular tachycardias, we have treated 38 children without left ventricular dysfunction.

Methods: The mean age has been 8 +/- 4.7 years old.

[An imaging and color echo-Doppler study of interventricular defects].

Objective: Evaluation of ventricular septal defect with two-dimensional echocardiography and color flow Doppler.

Patients And Methods: We had studied by this method 180 patients; 97 males and 83 (mean age 1.5 +/- 1 years) diagnosed of a VSD.

[The usefulness of two-dimensional echocardiography in the diagnosis of an interventricular aneurysm].

The ventricular septal defect (VSD) may close spontaneously in the first few years of life. The closure occurs by muscle's growth of the borders of the defect or by the appearance of an aneurysm of ventricular septum composed mostly by tricuspid tissue. We believe that the two-dimensional echocardiography is the best method to determine the mechanisms that take part in the aneurysm formation.

[Scimitar syndrome in the newborn child and infant].

We present 10 symptomatic patients with scimitar syndrome. Their age was below 1 year and four were newborn babies. In 5 patients there was secundum atrial septal defect and in one there was a patent ductus arteriosus.

[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and emergency surgery. Apropos of 12 cases].

From 1972 to 1986, a total of 46 children with the histological diagnosis of Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated in our hospital. Twelve had emergency surgery. Nine of them presented with an acute abdominal condition and three bowel perforation during treatment for childhood Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

[Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma as a cause of intussusception in children].

From 1972 to 1985, a total of 35 children with histological diagnosis of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma were treated. A previously undiagnosed abdominal non-Hodgkin's lymphoma produced intussusception in three of these children between 5 and 10 years of age. Our experience indicates that any child around 6 years of age with abdominal pain, bloody stools and a palpable mass plus radiographic evidence of intussusception should be considered to have an intestinal wall lymphoma until proven otherwise.