A hybrid therapy or procedure is a new treatment modality that develops by combining therapies from different subspecialties. In congenital heart disease, a growing number of such procedures have been described in recent decades, as a result of increasing collaboration between surgeons and interventionalists. The ideas behind these therapies include enabling the performance of procedures of different complexity in a less invasive manner, shortening procedural times, avoiding cardiopulmonary bypass, facilitating vascular access and decreasing the number of complications associated with more invasive approaches. Over the years, hybrid therapy has gained a place as a widely accepted therapeutic option for the management of several conditions in high-risk patients with congenital heart disease.
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Objectives: This study aimed to assess the role of olfactory sulci (OS) in diagnosing CHARGE syndrome among fetuses with major congenital heart defects (CHDs).
Methods: We prospectively evaluated OS development in fetuses diagnosed with CHDs from 2017 to 2021. Neurosonography (NSG) was performed using transabdominal and transvaginal approaches after 30 weeks of gestation.
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Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China; Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China; Cardiac Medical Unit, Grantham Hospital, Hong Kong SAR, China.
J Invasive Cardiol
January 2025
Department of Echocardiography, Wuhan Asia Heart Hospital Affiliated to Wuhan University of Science and Technology. No.753 Jinghan Road, Hankou District, Wuhan, China. Email:
Pediatr Cardiol
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The Heart Center, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
The C3PO collaborative, with a history of successful quality improvement (QI) initiatives, leveraged registry participants to develop a multi-center QI initiative to reduce adverse events (AEs) in congenital cardiac catheterization. A 32-person, interdisciplinary working group analyzed audited data for all congenital cardiac catheterization cases from 2014-2017. The primary outcome was the occurrence of any high-severity (level 3/4/5) AE.
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Children's Heart Center, Second Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and Motol University Hospital, Praha, Czech Republic.
Although the heart atria have a lesser functional importance than the ventricles, atria play an important role in the pathophysiology of heart failure and supraventricular arrhythmias, particularly atrial fibrillation. In addition, knowledge of atrial morphology recently became more relevant as cardiac electrophysiology and interventional procedures in the atria gained an increasingly significant role in the clinical management of patients with heart disease. The atrial chambers are thin-walled, and several vessels enter at the level of the atria.
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