Lipid Profile in Children Born Small for Gestational Age.

Background: Lipid disorders are one of the risk factors for cardiovascular diseases. The aim of the study was to estimate the lipid profile in early childhood in the population of Polish children born small for gestational age (SGA).

Materials And Methods: The study included 140 patients (93 SGA children and 47 controls) aged 5 to 11 years.

Assessment of Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis.

Introduction: The aim of this study was to assess the exposure to cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors in patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). Intima-media complex thickness (IMT), selected metabolic parameters and health behaviors were assessed in the course of the study.

Methods: The study included study group, which consisted of 45 patients with JIA and 37 healthy age- and sex-matched children in the control group.

Why and How Should We Assess the Cardiovascular Risk in Patients with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis? A Single-Centre Experience with Carotid Intima-Media Measurements.

Background: Children diagnosed with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are thought to be more likely to develop cardiovascular disease in adulthood. The factors modulating the cardiovascular risk, involving exposure to secondhand smoking, sedentary lifestyle and abnormal body mass index, might have had a stronger impact during the COVID-19 pandemic. The lack of reliable prognostic markers for a higher probability of cardiovascular events might be solved by carotid intima-media thickness (cIMT) measurement.

Serum Adipocytokines Profile in Children Born Small and Appropriate for Gestational Age-A Comparative Study.

Background: Adipose tissue is not only a storage place for fat, but also an endocrine organ, secreting bioactive molecules which influence body metabolism. Such molecules are known as adipocytokines. In the past years the coincidence between adipocytokines and fetal growth restriction disorders was found.

Changes in the cardiovascular system in children with pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 - A single center experience.

Background Pediatric multisystem inflammatory syndrome temporally associated with COVID-19 (PIMS-TS) is a serious complication of a previous SARS-CoV-2 infection in the group of pediatric patients. Despite the fact that this disease affects only about 1 of 1000 children, it may be severe, and changes in the cardiovascular system may cause long-term complications and the need for longitudinal patient care. Methods It is a single-center retrospective study considering 51 patients with PIMS-TS.

Evaluation of Health-Promoting Behaviors in the Prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Preschool Children of Polish Health Care Professionals.

Background: The aim of the study was to evaluate the health-promoting behavior of the preschool children (aged 3-6 y) of Polish health care professionals (HCPs).

Methods: The study was conducted by means of quantitative research on a group of 386 individuals, using an Internet-based survey.

Results: The ideal cardiovascular health model was determined in the case of 22 children (5.

[Preexcitation Syndromes in Children and Adolescents].

Preexcitation syndromes are becoming a more often detected disease in the pediatric population. Their essential feature is the presence of additional paths / pathways in the heart, through which the impulse is conducted faster than physiologically. This leads to faster ventricular excitation and may lead to creating dangerous arrhythmias.

Clinical course and treatment of children and adolescents with the preexcitation syndrome - own studies.

Introduction: Essentially, preexcitation syndrome is the presence of an accessory pathway in the heart, which can lead to serious consequences, ranging from atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia to sudden cardiac death. Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is the most common preexcitation syndrome.

Aim Of The Study: The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical course of the disease, as well as the treatment of children and adolescents hospitalized in the Department of Pediatric Cardiology in the years 2008-2015.

Myocardial dysfunction in children with intrauterine growth restriction: an echocardiographic study.

Introduction: The prevalence of intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is about 3-10% of live-born newborns and can be as high as 20% in developing countries. It may result in the occurrence of cardiovascular diseases later in life.

Methods: The aim of this study was echocardiographic evaluation, with the use of conventional and tissue Doppler parameters, of cardiac function in children born with IUGR, and comparison with healthy peers born as normally grown foetuses.

Time domain parameters of heart rate variability in children born as small-for-gestational age.

According to metabolic programming theory, small-for-gestational age patients are at high risk of cardiovascular diseases also because of the possible malfunction of the autonomic nervous system. Autonomic disorders can be assessed by heart rate variability. The aims of this study were to compare time domain parameters of heart rate variability in children born as small-for-gestational age and appropriate-for-gestational age and to assess the correlation of the postnatal and current somatic parameters with the time domain parameters.

Myocardial dysfunction measured by tissue Doppler echocardiography in children with primary arterial hypertension.

Background And Aim: To evaluate myocardial function with the use of tissue Doppler echocardiography in children with primary hypertension.

Methods: A total of 64 subjects (34 with hypertension, 30 control) underwent echocardiographic evaluation of systolic and diastolic function with the use of standard and tissue Doppler echocardiography parameters.

Results: The left ventricular myocardial performance index was higher in children with hypertension (0.

Intra-uterine growth restriction as a risk factor for hypertension in children six to 10 years old.

Introduction: Intra-uterine growth restriction (IUGR) is present in about 3-10% of live-born newborns and it is as high as 20-30% in developing countries. Since the 1990s, it has been known that abnormalities during foetal growth may result in cardiovascular disease, including hypertension in adulthood.

Methods: This study evaluated blood pressure parameters (using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring) in children aged six to 10 years old, born as small for gestational age (SGA), and compared them to their healthy peers born as appropriate for gestational age (AGA).

Prenatal diagnosis and follow-up of 23 cases of cardiac tumors.

Objective: To evaluate the prenatal characteristics and postnatal outcome of cardiac tumors diagnosed at two prenatal Polish cardiology centers.

Methods: Descriptive analysis of 23 fetuses with cardiac tumors (12 multiple and 11 single) diagnosed over 16 years (from 1993 to 2009). Congestive heart failure was diagnosed when the cardiovascular profile score was seven or less.

Takayasu's arteritis mimicking Kawasaki disease in 7-month-old infant, successfully treated with glucocorticosteroids and intravenous immunoglobulins.

Takayasu's arteritis (TA) rarely occurs in infants. There are only four reports on TA in children below 1 year of age, revealing diversity of its symptoms. We describe a 7-month-old female infant hospitalized for hectic fever, irritability, high acute phase indices, and coronary artery dilatations found on echocardiography, which suggested Kawasaki disease (KD).

[Prenatal diagnostics of congenital heart disease--own results].

Objectives: Congenital heart defects (CHD) are the most common congenital malformation. They are still often overlooked in fetuses during the routine obstetric scanning.

Design: The aim of our study was to present our results in detecting CHD in high risk pregnancies.

[Intrauterine growth restriction].

Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) is found in 1-10% of all pregnancies, and among women with risk factors even twice often. It is connected to worse obstetric results, and its complications can arise long time after delivery. In the paper we described etiology, diagnostics and monitoring of IUGR and its consequences for the child and for the course of neonatal periode.

[Assessment of cardiac function in fetuses with intrauterine growth retardation using the Tei Index].

Unlabelled: The aim of the study was to evaluate cardiac function in foetuses with IUGR, using the Tei Index.

Material And Methods: Prenatal echocardiographic examination was performed in 64 foetuses with intrauterine growth retardation between 25-27, 30-32, and 34-37 weeks of gestation. The control group included 30 healthy foetuses.

[Prenatal diagnosis of arrhythmias and conduction disturbances].

Objectives And Design: Cardiac arrhythmias are one of the most frequent indications for the fetal echocardiographic assessment. The objective of this work is to present our own results of diagnosing and treating the fetuses with arrhythmias.

Materials And Methods: The 1485 prenatal echocardiographic examinations were performed in 1302 fetuses.

[Intrauterine growth retardation--cardiologic diagnosis].

Objectives And Design: Intrauterine growth retardation (IUGR) of a fetus is one of the most important problem of modern perinatal medicine. It is generally known that low birth weight predisposes to certain disease in later life, including diseases of the cardiovascular system. The aim of this study is to present own results of cardiology diagnostics in fetuses with IUGR.