Surgical outcomes of common arterial trunk repair beyond infancy.

Background: The aim of this study is to analyze the clinical outcomes of common arterial trunk repair beyond infancy in terms of both early- and long-term outcomes.

Methods: Between January 2003 and December 2019, 56 patients underwent repair for common arterial trunk beyond infancy at our institute. Median age was 34.

Surgical Management of Aortopulmonary Window and its Associated Cardiac Lesions.

The aim of this study was to review our institutional experience with patients who underwent surgical repair of aortopulmonary window, either as an isolated lesion or in association with other cardiac anomalies. Between January 2006 and December 2020, 183 patients underwent surgical repair of aortopulmonary window at our institute. Sixty-three patients had associated lesions (Group 1); 120 patients had isolated aortopulmonary window (Group 2).

Clinically relevant variants in a large cohort of Indian patients with Marfan syndrome and related disorders identified by next-generation sequencing.

Marfan syndrome and related disorders are a group of heritable connective tissue disorders and share many clinical features that involve cardiovascular, skeletal, craniofacial, ocular, and cutaneous abnormalities. The majority of affected individuals have aortopathies associated with early mortality and morbidity. Implementation of targeted gene panel next-generation sequencing in these individuals is a powerful tool to obtain a genetic diagnosis.

The Spectrum of Cardiac Anomalies Associated with Heterotaxy: A Single-Center Study of a Large Series Based on Computed Tomography.

The aim of the study was to identify and correlate the anatomical variants of cardiac structures among patients with heterotaxy. In this retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 13 years duration, 302 patients of congenital heart diseases associated with heterotaxy were studied. All these patients had undergone a meticulous clinical evaluation, echocardiography, and cardiac computed tomography.

Incidence, Risk Factors, and Outcome of Cardiac Arrhythmia Postcardiac Surgery in Children.

Objective: To study the incidence of postoperative cardiac arrhythmias in children undergoing cardiac surgery and to evaluate the risk factors and outcome of these patients.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective observational study was conducted in the cardiac pediatric intensive care unit and included children <18 years of age. Children were monitored in the early postoperative period (72 h) for any sustained rhythm abnormality and were classified using standard definition.

Prediction of left ventricular dysfunction after device closure of patent ductus arteriosus: proposal for a new functional classification.

Aims: The aims of this study were to determine the incidence and correlates of left ventricular (LV) dysfunction amongst percutaneous patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) device closure patients, and to propose an indexed parameter for predicting LV dysfunction.

Methods And Results: In a retrospective cross-sectional analysis of 30 months duration, 447 patients who underwent PDA device closure were studied. The diameter of the PDA at the pulmonary artery end was measured in the angiograms in all patients and was indexed for their body surface area.

PHACE/S syndrome: a syndromic infantile segmental hemangioma.

PHACES syndrome is a neurocutaneous disorder characterized by posterior fossa brain malformations, hemangiomas, cardiac anomalies and coarctation of aorta, eye anomalies ± sternal clefts. All reported cases are sporadic and notably common in females. The underlying cause is unknown.

Spectrum of paediatric cardiac diseases: a study of 15,066 children undergoing cardiac intervention at a tertiary care centre in India with special emphasis on gender.

Objectives: To analyse the relative frequency and gender ratios in the procedures (both surgical and catheter-based interventions) performed for cardiac diseases in Indian children.

Background: Not many studies are available in the developing countries with regard to the prevalence, relative frequency, or gender distribution of cardiac diseases in children. As universal newborn screening is not carried out for congenital cardiac diseases, the statistics are difficult to ascertain.

Lessons learned from a series of patients with missed aortopulmonary windows.

Objectives: To identify factors contributing to missed diagnosis of aortopulmonary windows on initial echocardiographic examination; and to analyze lesions associated with these malformations.

Design: Retrospective study where echocardiographic findings and per-operative findings of patients were correlated by reviewing records.

Setting: Tertiary-care paediatric cardiac centre.