Effects of Sports, Exercise Training, and Physical Activity in Children with Congenital Heart Disease-A Review of the Published Evidence.

Children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) should be encouraged to adopt a physically active lifestyle, ideally by participating in sports activities at school and sports clubs. Children with complex CHD or other risk factors (for example, pacemakers, cardioverter-defibrillators, channelopathies) may, however, need specific individualized training programs. This review article summarizes the current knowledge regarding the clinical effects of sports and exercise training on CHD and its pathophysiologic mechanisms.

Value of high-resolution contrast-enhanced ultrasound in detection and characterisation of endoleaks after EVAR.

Purpose: To compare the value of high-resolution contrast-enhanced ultrasound in the detection and characterisation of endoleaks after EVAR.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective study, a cohort of 80 patients underwent both standard examination using a curved array 5 MHz transducer and a second examination using a curved array 9 MHz transducer. The examination included B-mode, color Doppler and contrast-enhanced ultrasound using the Philips EPIQ 7 scanner.

The role of VTIQ as a new tissue strain analytics measurement technique in testicular lesions.

Purpose: Virtual touch tissue imaging quantification (VTIQ) is a newly developed technique for the sonographic quantification of tissue elasticity. It has been used in the assessment of breast lesions. The purpose of this study was to determine the diagnostic performance of VTIQ in indeterminate testicular lesions.

Comparison of contrast-enhanced ultrasound and compression elastography in the follow-up after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.

Purpose: To compare compression elastography and contrast enhanced ultrasound in the follow-up after endovascular aortic aneurysm repair.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective study a cohort of 33 patients with both CEUS and elastography follow-up examinations after EVAR were included. The examinations were done with a Siemens S 2000 with curved array 4 MHz multi-frequency transducer.

Value of high resolution compression elastography and color doppler sonography in characterisation of breast lesions: comparison of different high-frequency transducers.

Purpose: To evaluate the additional effect of higher frequent linear probes than 12.5 MHz in color Doppler sonography and free hand sonoelastography of benign and malignant breast masses and to compare different color encodings in sonoelastography.

Materials And Methods: From December 2012 to March 2013, 37 patients with benign or malignant breast masses were prospectively included in this study.

Classification of endoleaks in the follow-up after EVAR using the time-to-peak of the contrast agent in CEUS examinations.

Purpose: To evaluate the feasibility of the classification of endoleaks following endovascular aortic aneurysm repair using the time-to-peak of the contrast agent in CEUS examinations.

Material And Methods: In this retrospective study, a cohort of 171 patients with a total of 489 CEUS follow-up examinations after EVAR were included. In 254 of the 489 examinations, an endoleak was seen and the time-to-peak was measured in seconds.

Results of pediatric cardiac transplantation -- long-term results of a 15-year experience.

Introduction: Heart transplantation (HTx) has increasingly become a therapeutic option for end-stage heart failure of any origin in children. Short- and mid-term results are promising. However, long-term outcome has been a matter of concern because of acute or chronic rejection and side effects of immunosuppression.

Cardiac transplantation in pediatric patients: fifteen-year experience of a single center.

Background: Pediatric heart transplantation is a surgical therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy and for complex congenital heart defects with low pulmonary artery resistance. However, it is still discussed as controversial because of uncertain long-term results. We report our experience with pediatric heart transplantation in a heterogeneous population.