Clinical Profile, Intensive Care Needs and Outcome of Children with Dilated Cardiomyopathy Associated with Vitamin D Deficiency: A 5-year PICU Experience.

Aim: To describe the clinical profile, treatment details, intensive care needs, and long-term outcome of children with dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) associated with Vitamin D deficiency (VDD).

Materials And Methods: Case records of 14 children with DCM associated with VDD [25(OH)D3 levels <20 ng/mL] admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care teaching hospital between January 2017 and December 2021 were retrospectively analyzed for clinical features, echocardiographic findings, treatment details, intensive care needs, and outcomes.

Results: The median (IQR) age was 6 (2-9) months and 71% (=10) were males.

Clinico-Laboratory Profile, Intensive Care Needs and Short-Term Outcome of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): Experience during First and Second Waves from North India.

Objectives: To describe the clinico-laboratory profile, intensive care needs and outcome of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) during the first and second waves.

Methodology: This retrospective study was conducted in the paediatric emergency and paediatric intensive care unit (PICU) of a tertiary care teaching hospital in North India involving 122 children with MIS-C admitted during the first wave (September 2020-January 2021, n = 40) and second wave (February 2021-September 2021, n = 82) of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

Results: The median (interquartile range) age was 7 (4-10) years and 67% were boys.

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children: Follow-Up of a Cohort from North India.

Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIC-S) is a hyperinflammatory manifestation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. Information on the long-term outcome of MIS-C is limited. This study was conducted to describe the long-term outcome of MIS-C from a tertiary care center in North India.

Fetal cardiac intervention and fetal cardiac surgery: where are we in 21st century?

Fetal cardiac intervention is an in-utero cardiac procedure done in fetuses with heart diseases like severe aortic stenosis with evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome, hypoplastic left heart syndrome with an intact or restricted atrial septum, pulmonary atresia with an intact ventricular septum, fetal heart block obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous return, pericardial collection. The successful biventricular repair can be done in postnatal life after aortic or pulmonary valvuloplasty. Fetal bypass is very challenging because of different physiology.

Intensive Care Needs and Short-Term Outcome of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C): Experience from North India.

Objectives: To describe the intensive care needs and outcome of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C).

Methodology: This retrospective study was conducted in the pediatric emergency, pediatric intensive care unit (PICUs) and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID 19) hospital of a tertiary teaching and referral hospital in North India over a period of 5 months (September 2020 to January 2021). Clinical details, laboratory investigations, intensive care needs, treatment and short-term outcome were recorded.

Infective endocarditis caused by presenting as anterior mitral leaflet perforation mimicking cleft anterior mitral leaflet.

Infective endocarditis (IE) is primarily a bacterial infection of the heart valves. The most common organisms implicated include and species. However, with the advent of MALDI-TOF and molecular techniques, the reports of IE being caused by rare organisms are on a rise.

Fusobacterial brain abscess caused by paradoxical embolization associated with Ebstein's anomaly in an adult patient: A case report.

Brain abscess remains a life-threatening condition. Here, we are reporting a case of brain abscess due to Fusobacterium nucleatum in a previously known case of Ebstein anomaly. A 44-year-old male presented with the complaints of headache, and fever.

Type II aortopulmonary window with tetralogy of Fallot: successful repair.

Aortopulmonary window associated with tetralogy of Fallot is a rare cardiac anomaly. An 8-month-old boy presented with failure to thrive and recurrent chest infections. Echocardiography and imaging studies revealed a type II aortopulmonary window with tetralogy of Fallot.