Enhanced congenital cardiac surgery knowledge with multidisciplinary collaborative education series for paediatric cardiology fellows and nurse practitioners.

Introduction: Paediatric cardiologists and nurse practitioners lack structured education tools focused on basic cardiac surgery principles. However, non-surgical specialties caring for surgical patients require this knowledge for comprehensive clinical care. We created a cardiac surgical educational curriculum focused on improving knowledge and attitudes towards communication for non-surgical trainees and advanced practice providers.

Late Outcomes of Transcatheter Coarctation Intervention in Infants with Biventricular Anatomy.

Determine outcomes of catheter intervention for aortic coarctation in infants. Aortic coarctation in infants following surgical repair and in high surgical risk native cases remains a challenging problem. Catheter intervention is an alternative to surgical intervention.

Long-term outcomes and re-interventions following balloon aortic valvuloplasty in pediatric patients with congenital aortic stenosis: A single-center study.

Objectives: To describe long-term risk of mortality, aortic insufficiency (AI), and re-intervention following balloon aortic valvuloplasty (BAV) in pediatric patients and to identify risk factors for re-intervention.

Background: Few studies report long-term outcomes following BAV in infants and children.

Methods: Kaplan-Meier estimates and proportional hazards regression were used in a retrospective study of 154 patients undergoing BAV from 1993 to 2013.

Modified Blalock-Taussig shunt versus ductal stenting for palliation of cardiac lesions with inadequate pulmonary blood flow.

Objective: The modified Blalock-Taussig shunt is the most commonly used palliative procedure for infants with ductal-dependent pulmonary circulation. Recently, catheter-based stenting of the ductus arteriosus has been used by some centers to avoid surgical shunt placement. We evaluated the durability and safety of ductal stenting as an alternative to the modified Blalock-Taussig shunt.

Front teeth-to-carina distance in children undergoing cardiac catheterization.

Background: Knowledge of normal front teeth-to-carina distance (FT-C) might prevent accidental bronchial intubation. The aim of the current study was to measure FT-C and to examine whether the Morgan formula for oral intubation depth, i.e.

Novel use of the Amplatzer duct occluder for percutaneous closure of a large subclavian artery to innominate vein fistula in a neonate.

We report the use of the Amplatzer Duct Occluder for transcatheter closure of a rare subclavian artery to innominate vein fistula in a neonate.

Intermediate follow-up following intravascular stenting for treatment of coarctation of the aorta.

Background: We report a multiinstitutional study on intermediate-term outcome of intravascular stenting for treatment of coarctation of the aorta using integrated arch imaging (IAI) techniques.

Methods And Results: Medical records of 578 patients from 17 institutions were reviewed. A total of 588 procedures were performed between May 1989 and Aug 2005.

Procedural results and acute complications in stenting native and recurrent coarctation of the aorta in patients over 4 years of age: a multi-institutional study.

Background: We report a multi-institutional experience with intravascular stenting (IS) for treatment of coarctation of the aorta.

Methods And Results: Data was collected retrospectively by review of medical records from 17 institutions. The data was broken down to prior to 2002 and after 2002 for further analysis.

Balloon angioplasty for Blalock-Taussig shunt failure in the early postoperative period.

Blalock-Taussig shunt failure is an infrequent but devastating, and often life-threatening, postoperative complication. Percutaneous balloon angioplasty (BA) of a stenotic modified Blalock-Taussig shunt (mBTS) has been successfully used in the setting of progressive shunt failure months to years after shunt creation. Only a few case reports exist where BA was used in the early postoperative period.

Endovascular stents for treatment of coarctation of the aorta: acute results and follow-up experience.

Balloon angioplasty as treatment for coarctation of the aorta is increasingly performed. Endovascular stents have been proposed as a means of improving the efficacy and safety of the procedure. In this report, we describe one institution's immediate results and clinical follow-up after implantation of endovascular stents.