The univentricular heart encompasses a spectrum of rare and complex congenital cardiac malformations whereby both atria predominantly egress into one functionally single ventricular chamber, precluding biventricular repair. Population studies indicate…
Many patients who survive into adulthood with congenital heart disease (CHD) will develop progressive cardiopulmonary dysfunction. Some will develop ventricular failure, some will have pulmonary hypertension, and many will experience…
Every year, 4% of the population undergoes major surgery, defined as an intervention occurring in a hospital operating theater and usually requiring anesthesia for pain control. Worldwide, the mortality rate…
Increasingly, more patients with congenital heart disease (CHD), including those with more complex disease, survive into adulthood. They present to critical care physicians by virtue of their underlying cardiac disease,…
Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) are an expanding population who pose a significant challenge to the medical professionals who are caring for them. Although early surgery has transformed the…
As a result of the genetic revolution, the impact of genetics must be considered in the diagnosis, management, and treatment of the patient populations of most specialty clinics. It is…
Congenital heart disease (CHD) lesions occur during embryonic development and consist of abnormal formations of the heart walls, valves, or blood vessels. The dramatic improvement in CHD diagnosis and continued…
Jane Somerville I have witnessed this history and want to share it… Cardiology in the 1950s was just emerging as a specialty, strongly resisted by the professors of medicine in the…
Abstract The majority of sudden cardiac death (SCD) events are associated with structural heart disease; however, in 10% to 20% of SCDs, no cardiac structural abnormalities are detectable. The lack…
Abstract Coronary heart disease is the most common cause of clinically documented ventricular tachycardia (VT). The majority of sustained monomorphic VTs in patients with prior myocardial infarction (MI) are caused…
