Clinical features of plastic bronchitis in children after congenital heart surgery.

Background: Plastic bronchitis (PB) can occur in patients who have undergone congenital heart surgery (CHS). This study aimed to investigate the clinical features of PB in children after CHS.

Methods: We conducted a retrospective cohort study using the electronic medical record system.

Effect of high-energy and/or high-protein feeding in children with congenital heart disease after cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Unlabelled: High-energy or high-protein feeding offers a promising approach to improving malnutrition in children after congenital heart surgery. However, the effect of high-energy or high-protein feeding in this population has not yet been systematically reviewed. Therefore, we aimed to assess the safety and effectiveness of high-energy or high-protein feeding in children after congenital heart surgery.

Perioperative extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pediatric congenital heart disease: Chinese expert consensus.

Background: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is one of the main supportive diseases of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in children. The management of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for pediatric CHD faces more severe challenges due to the complex anatomical structure of the heart, special pathophysiology, perioperative complications and various concomitant malformations. The survival rate of ECMO for CHD was significantly lower than other classifications of diseases according to the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization database.

Pharmacokinetics of treprostinil in children with functional single-ventricle pulmonary arterial hypertension: a randomized controlled trial.

Background: Application of Treprostinil (TRE) in the patients with single ventricle (SV) physiology is very limited, and the optimal dose for children has not been determined. In this study, we aimed to analyze plasma samples to assess the attainment of clinically therapeutic concentrations of TRE and its efficacy and safety in the treatment of pediatric functional SV pulmonary arterial hypertension (FSV-PAH)..

Feasibility of using a non-sedation protocol for evaluation of neonatal congenital heart disease by using a 16-cm wide-detector computed tomography with a low radiation dose: preliminary experience from a single pediatric medical center.

The aim of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a non-sedation protocol for the evaluation of neonatal congenital heart disease by using 16-cm wide-detector CT with a low radiation dose. Thirty-four neonates (group 1) were enrolled to undergo cardiac CT without sedation between August 2018 and March 2019. The control group (group 2) comprising 20 inpatient neonates was sedated.

Neonatal surgical outcomes after prenatal diagnosis of complex congenital heart disease: experiences of a perinatal integrated diagnosis and treatment program.

Background: This study aimed to evaluate neonatal surgical outcomes of patients diagnosed with complex congenital heart disease (CHD) during pregnancy and treated by the newly initiated "perinatal integrated diagnosis and treatment program (PIDTP)".

Methods: We reviewed clinical data of 207 neonates (surgical age ≤ 28 days) who underwent cardiac surgeries in a single center from January 2017 to December 2018, including 31 patients with referrals from the "PIDTP" (integration group) and 176 patients with routine referral treatment (non-integrated group).

Results: In the integration group, median admission age was 0 days and median age at surgery was 4 days.

The Nutritional Status of Pediatric Patients with Single Ventricle Undergoing a Bidirectional Glenn Procedure.

Single ventricle (SV) physiology is associated with growth retardation in children. The nutritional status of pediatric patients with SV undergoing a bidirectional Glenn (BDG) procedure vitally affects the feasibility of the next operation stages. To explore the nutritional status and to identify specific anthropometric parameters relevant to short-term surgical outcomes in children with SV after the BDG procedure, this study included 151 patients who underwent the BDG procedure.

Nutritional outcomes in infants with food allergy after cardiac surgery.

Background: Food allergy is a rapidly growing public health concern because of its increasing prevalence, as well as life-threatening potential. There is limited knowledge on the nutritional status for the pediatric congenital heart disease (CHD) patients with food allergy.

Objective: This study investigated both clinical and nutritional outcomes according to the CHD infants with food allergy.

[Effect of prone or spine position on mechanically ventilated neonates after cardiac surgery with acute lung injury].

Objective: To compare the efficacy and safety ventilated with pressure support ventilation (PSV) or neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) in neonates undergoing open-heart surgery with acute lung injury (ALI) in spine and prone positions.

Methods: Fifteen neonates with a mean age of (15 +/- 9) days and a mean weight of (3.5 +/- 0.

[Outcome of oral bosentan in children with congenital heart disease associated pulmonary arterial hypertension].

Objective: To investigate the outcome of dual endothelin receptor antagonist bosentan in children with congenital heart disease (CHD) associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH).

Methods: A total of 32 children were recruited into this prospective and observational study. Among them, there were 18 cases with left-to-right shunt and 14 cases with elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) in functional single ventricle (FSV).

[Evaluation on the early hemodynamic changes after cardiac surgery for congenital heart diseases in neonates].

Objective: To accurately evaluate the early hemodynamic status of neonates who undergo complex neonatal cardiac surgery, through monitoring the cardiac index (CI), serum lactate (Lac), mixed venous oxygen saturation (SvO(2)).

Methods: From January to November 2007, haemodynamic data of 80 patients who had open heart surgery for congenital heart disease were analyzed within 48 hours after operation. Of the 80 patients, 47 were neonates, their age ranged from 3 days to 29 days [mean (21.

[Application of neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in infants who underwent cardiac surgery for congenital heart disease].

Objective: Neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) is a new mode of mechanical ventilation that delivers ventilatory assist in proportion to neural effort. This study aimed to compare the hemodynamic safety, oxygenation and gas exchange effects ventilated with NAVA and with pressure support ventilation (PSV) in infants who underwent open-heart surgery.

Methods: Twenty-one infants who underwent open-heart surgery for congenital heart disease (mean age 2.

Survey of the use of peripherally inserted central venous catheters in neonates with critical congenital cardiac disease.

Neonates with congenital cardiac disease are a special population. They are often critically ill, and need prolonged intravenous access. To date, no study has evaluated the efficacy and safety of peripherally inserted central venous catheters placed in this unique population.

[Percutaneous radiofrequency ablation combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization and percutaneous ethanol injection for recurrent small hepatocellular carcinoma].

Objective: To explore the value of percutaneous radiofrequency ablation (PRFA) combined with transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) and percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) in the management of recurrent small hepatocellular carcinoma.

Methods: Between March 2001 and March 2005, 52 patients with recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma (tumor size< or =5 cm) underwent PRFA, and 14 of the patients (tumor size 3-5 cm) also received TACE and PEI, and their clinical data were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: MRI or CT after PRFA revealed complete coagulative necrosis of the tumor in 38 cases (tumor size <3 cm).

[Postoperative complications after orthotopic liver transplantation: clinical analysis of 18 cases].

Objective: To investigate experience in diagnosis and treatment of postoperative complications in patients undergoing orthotopic liver transplantation (OLT).

Methods: Complications, treatment and management following liver transplantation in 16 cases were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: Of 16 patients, 5 patients had advanced liver cirrhosis, 7 primary liver carcinoma, 1 liver failure after hepatectomy for liver cancer, 1 Wilson's disease, 1 chronic renal failure and liver cirrhosis and 1 acute live failure.

[Clinical experience with 13 cases of orthotopic liver transplantation].

Objective: To review our experience with orthotopic liver transplantation.

Methods: Thirteen liver transplantation were performed in 12 patients (including one liver retransplantation), of whom 5 patients received the transplantation for end stage liver cirrhosis, 4 for primary liver carcinoma, 1 for liver failure after hepatectomy for liver cancer, 1 for Wilson's disease, and 1 for chronic renal failure and liver cirrhosis. Retransplantation was done in 1 patient for chronic graft rejection.