Effect of Hemodialysis on Global and Regional Cardiac Function in Children With End-stage Renal Disease.

Introduction: Changes in cardiac structure and function are common among patients with end-stage renal disease. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of hemodialysis on global and segmental cardiac function in children with end-stage renal disease.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-two children with ESRD who were on long-term hemodialysis at Nemazee Hospital, Shiraz, were enrolled.

Transcatheter Closure of Partially Ligated Vertical Vein after Surgical Correction of Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection.

Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is an anomaly in which the pulmonary veins are directly connected to one of the systemic veins or drain into the right atrium. Management of pulmonary hypertension after the total correction of this congenital cardiac anomaly is very important. Unligation of the vertical vein in the supracardiac type of this anomaly can be a draining pathway for the prevention of postoperative pulmonary hypertension crisis.

Complete heart block following transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect due to growth of inflammatory tissue.

Transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD) is the most common approach to close the defects worldwide. In this approach, persistent conduction disturbance is extremely rare, but an acute increase in supraventricular ectopy and minimal risk of atrioventricular conduction disturbance, as complete heart block, has been seen. Here, we report a patient who underwent ASD closure with device and presented with persistent complete heart block 10 days after device occlusion due to inflammatory tissue formation just near the atrioventricular node area at the floor of the right atrium without any direct compression on the triangle of Koch.