Turning 18 with congenital heart disease: prediction of infective endocarditis based on a large population.

Aims: The risk of infective endocarditis (IE) in adults with congenital heart disease is known to be increased, yet empirical risk estimates are lacking. We sought to predict the occurrence of IE in patients with congenital heart disease at the transition from childhood into adulthood.

Methods And Results: We identified patients from the CONCOR national registry for adults with congenital heart disease.

Predicting capacities required in cardiology units for heart failure patients via simulation.

The management of a department of cardiology has to plan the capacity of both elective and non-elective patients. Heart failure (HF) patients are admitted to the hospital in a non-elective way. The precision with which the capacity needed for non-elective patients can be predicted determines the degree of flexibility in planning the admission of elective patients.

Peripartum cardiomyopathy: a condition intensivists should be aware of.

We use an illustrative case of severe peripartum cardiomyopathy with congestive heart failure to introduce this topic and proceed to cover its pathophysiology, incidence, management and outcome.