The impact of socioeconomic status and race on the outcomes of congenital heart disease.

Purpose Of Review: Studying the outcomes of congenital heart disease and their associations allows paediatric cardiologists and intensivists to improve the care and health equity of their patients. This review presents the most recent literature discussing the socioeconomic and racial disparities that pervade the outcomes of patients with congenital heart disease in every facet of treatment. The outcomes of congenital heart disease discussed are prenatal detection, maintenance of care, quality of life, neurodevelopment and mortality.

DICER1 Mutation Detected in an Infant Guides Accurate Diagnosis of Auto-Amputated Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma.

Background: The DICER1 mutation is a pathogenic, germline mutation that predisposes patients to uncommon malignancies at a young age.

Case: A 6-month-old female infant presented with vaginal bleeding and a protruding vaginal mass of unclear pathogenesis. Chemotherapy was initially targeted toward a germ cell tumor; after pathologic testing and auto-amputation of the tumor, the patient was diagnosed with a rare DICER1-associated embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma.