The aortic arch, the arterial duct, and the right and left pulmonary arteries have close spatial relationships with the major airways and the oesophagus. Due to this close proximity, abnormalities…
Prior to the early 1980s, it was uncommon for children with complex congenitally malformed hearts to survive into later childhood. The nearly simultaneous advances in congenital cardiac surgery, echocardiography, and…
What are the outcomes that really matter to patients, families, and societies living with the implications of congenital and acquired paediatric cardiac disease? Survival and physiological function are certainly paramount….
Pulmonary hypertension describes a number of different diseases involving the pulmonary vasculature, which have haemodynamic, histological, and therapeutic features in common. The hallmark of these diseases is an abnormally high…
Although the clinical complications of atherosclerosis do not usually occur until adulthood, it is now appreciated that the underlying arterial pathology begins much earlier. Over the last two decades, there…
Communication between the cardiologist and providers of primary care is an essential component of the medical care of the patient, and is of increasing importance in the current era, which…
Kawasaki disease was first described in 1967, by a Japanese paediatrician, Tomisako Kawasaki. 1 He characterised the illness, then termed mucutaneous lymph node syndrome, as including high fever, non-exudative conjunctivitis,…
Most children born with congenitally malformed hearts now survive to adult life, as a result of the spectacular achievements of paediatric cardiology and surgery over the past half-century. This has…
An abnormally positioned heart is not in itself a malformation of major significance. The exceptions are the extreme examples of exteriorisation of the heart, usually described as ectopia cordis ,…
Holes between the ventricles can occur as isolated anomalies, but are also seen in association with many other defects. For example, they are found as integral parts of entities such…
