Bridging the Cardiac Needs of a Large, Underserved Immigrant and Resettled Refugee Population.

Objective: To describe a monthly outreach pediatric cardiology clinic established to better understand the cardiac needs of immigrant/resettled refugee children.

Study Design: Data obtained between 2014 and 2017 from a monthly pediatric cardiology clinic at a Federally Qualified Health Center were analyzed using descriptive statistics.

Results: A total of 366 patients (222 male, 61%) were evaluated.

Regional myocardial deformation in children with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: morphological and clinical correlations.

Aims: Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a disease with marked regional differences in wall thickness. However, the relation between myocardial function and wall thickness has not been well studied. Ultrasonic strain rate (SR) imaging makes it possible to study the regional myocardial deformation.

Myocardial performance index with sevoflurane-pancuronium versus fentanyl-midazolam-pancuronium in infants with a functional single ventricle.

Background: Patients with congenital heart disease characterized by a functional single ventricle make up an increasing number of patients presenting for cardiac or noncardiac surgery. Conventional echocardiographic methods to measure left ventricular function, i.e.