Long-term outcomes after first-onset arrhythmia in Fontan physiology.

Objectives: Patients living with a Fontan circulation are prone to develop arrhythmias. However, their prognostic impact has been seldom studied. As such, we aimed to determine the incidence and predictors of arrhythmias after the Fontan procedure and the long-term outcomes after the first onset of arrhythmias.

Effectiveness and safety of 1 vs 4 h blood pressure profile with clinical and laboratory assessment for the exclusion of gestational hypertension and pre-eclampsia: a retrospective study in a university affiliated maternity hospital.

Objective: We asked whether 60 compared with 240 min observation is sufficiently informative and safe for pregnancy day assessment (PDAC) of suspected pre-eclampsia (PE).

Design: A retrospective study of 209 pregnant women (475 PDAC assessments, 6 months) with routinely collected blood pressure (BP), symptom and laboratory information. We proposed a 60 min screening algorithm comprising: absence of symptoms, normal laboratory parameters and ≤1high-BP reading (systolic blood pressure, SBP 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic blood pressure, DBP 90 mm Hg or higher).