Complications After Surgical Repair of Congenital Heart Disease in Infants. An Experience From Tertiary Care Center.

Objectives: This study aimed to describe the incidence and spectrum of postoperative complications in infants who underwent their first cardiac surgery for the repair of congenital heart diseases.

Methods: This is a single-center retrospective study. Data of infants admitted to King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center; Jeddah; Saudi Arabia, from January 2015 to December 2019 who underwent the first cardiac procedure for congenital heart disease at an age of less than 3 months, were analyzed.

Transcutaneous Bilirubin Measurements Can Be Used to Measure Bilirubin Levels during Phototherapy.

Objective: To determine whether transcutaneous bilirubin measurements (TcB) before and during phototherapy taken from covered skin during phototherapy correlate with total serum bilirubin (TSB) levels.

Study Design: In this prospective observational study, healthy term newborns who required TSB measurements were included. TcB measurements were taken from the forehead before starting and during phototherapy using the BiliChek device.

Femoral-facial syndrome in an infant of a diabetic mother.

Femoral-facial syndrome (FFS) is a very rare multiple congenital anomaly syndrome. The authors describe a case of FFS in a 2-day-old infant of a diabetic mother. The phenotypic features include bilateral symmetrical femoral involvement with completely aplastic right-sided femur, severely hypoplastic left femur and unusual facial dysmorphic features without other skeleton/spinal and genitourinary anomalies.