A retrospective cohort study of major adverse cardiac events in children affected by Kawasaki disease with coronary artery aneurysms in Thailand.

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a common form of vasculitis in children that can be complicated by coronary artery aneurysms (CAAs). Data of long-term outcomes and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in children with CAAs following KD in developing country are limited. Our aims were to determine the rates of MACE and identify risk factors associated with MACE in children with KD and CAAs in Thailand.

Fetal and Neonatal Modified Myocardial Performance Indices in Preeclamptic versus Normotensive Pregnancies: A Prospective Cohort Study.

Objective: To compare fetal and neonatal cardiac functions in terms of global, systolic, and diastolic function between the preeclampsia and normotensive blood pressure of pregnancies.

Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted at a university hospital in Northeast Thailand. Twenty-nine pregnancies diagnosed as preeclampsia with or without severe features were compared with 29 normotensive pregnancies.

Assessment of Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion in Patients with Isolated Cleft Palate: A Systematic Review of Prospective Studies.

Background: The prevalence of 22q11.2 deletion in patients presenting with isolated cleft palate has not been systematically assessed.

Objective: To assess the evidence in the literature for the prevalence of 22q11.

Two-year survival, mental, and motor outcomes after cardiac extracorporeal life support at less than five years of age.

Objective: Comprehensive outcome assessment of children receiving cardiac extracorporeal life support.

Methods: From 2000 to 2004, 39 consecutive children (aged 1 day to 4.4 years) had cardiac extracorporeal life support.

Aortoesophageal fistula: a life-threatening cause of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage in double aortic arch, a case report.

The authors present the case of a 2-month-old infant with double aortic arch that developed massive bright red upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage from aortoesophageal fistula (AEF) after prolonged endotracheal and nasogastric intubation. Emergency thoracotomy with AEF and double aortic arch repaired were done successfully under cardiopulmonary bypass. Due to tracheomalacia and left phrenic nerve injury, tracheal extubation could not be done until 1 month after correction of the vascular ring.

Kawasaki disease in central area of Northeast Thailand.

Kawasaki disease (KD) is a leading cause of acquired heart disease of childhood. The authors retrospectively reviewed cases of KD in major referral centers of central Northeast Thailand from July 1991 to June 2003. Seventy-three episodes occurring in 72 patients were diagnosed with KD by the American Heart Association criteria with a mean age of presentation of 27 +/- 19 months.