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Background: Extracorporeal circulation is associated with systemic inflammatory response syndrome. Therefore, the diagnosis of infection should be differentiated from a typical postoperative course.

Aim: The aim of the study was to evaluate the kinetics of inflammatory biomarkers in children in the first days after cardiac surgery with extracorporeal circulation.

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Symptomatic cardiac hemangioma resected on the first day of life.

J Card Surg

December 2017

Chair of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation and Kinesiology, Gdańsk Academy of Physical Education and Sport, Gdańsk, Poland.

Cardiac tumors are extremely rare in neonates. We describe the case of a right atrial hemangioma in a neonate diagnosed prenatally and successfully operated on the first day of life.

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Paediatric Melody® mitral valve replacement in acute endocarditis - alternative surgical-hybrid technique.

Kardiol Pol

December 2017

Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, St. Adalbertus Hospital Gdańsk-Zaspa,, Poland; Chair of Physiotherapy, Faculty of Rehabilitation and Kinesiology, Gdańsk Academy of Physical Education and Sport,, Poland.

Background And Aim: Acute endocarditis (AE) is still rare disease in the paediatric population; nevertheless, the children suffering from AE usually need heart valve repair or replacement in emergency settings.

Methods: We present a case of emergency mitral valve replacement with the use of Melody balloon expandable stented bioprosthesis in a two-year-old patient with AE and subsequent mitral (bicuspid) valve incompetence after aggressive infective destruction with the symptoms of critical multi-organ failure.

Results: The patient, with a history of rapid deterioration after two-week-long septicaemia in the course of AE, was operated urgently after initial antibiotic treatment because of huge vegetations into the mitral valve orifice.

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