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Filter by:Palliative care in pediatric oncology and neurology is well described in the literature. There is a lack of information on the care of children terminally ill due to heart failure. A significant number of children are diagnosed with terminal heart failure for which palliative care is required. Objective: To describe palliative care of children over one year of age with end-stage heart failure, including need for and types of pain control, hospice use, need for and use of home nursing and quality of life issues.
The purpose of this chart review study is to examine the effects of beta -adrenergic blocking agents on systemic ventricular dimensions, systemic atrioventricular valve function and exercise tolerance in patients with transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and systemic ventricular dysfunction.
Children with HLHS have a history of poor enteral intake and growth. Over the past several years a modification to the Norwood operation was instituted (RV to PA shunt in place of the standard Blalock-Taussig shunt). The purpose of this study is to evaluate whether children who underwent this modification of the Norwood procedure had improved growth compared to those in past years who underwent traditional Norwood.
Pompe's disease, also known as glycogen storage disease type II, is a genetic disorder due to deficiency of acid glucosidase (GAA), which results in lysosomal glycogen storage in various tissues. Very low levels of GAA usually present in infancy, lead to a progressive cardiac and skeletal muscle disorder and death before age 1 year. Most infants develop massive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which progresses to dilated cardiomyopathy and cardiorespiratory arrest. 3D echocardiography can be a simple, non-invasive method of following cardiac disease progression in infantile Pompe's disease.
In 2004, the Cardiac Cath Lab at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta was asked to conduct a Quality Improvement Review examining radiation exposure.
To date, there have been no published reports of normal variations in tracheal dimensions for pediatric patients undergoing MRIs. While there are reports of normals in CT studies, the reported dimensions were for average areas and lengths over the entire length of the trachea and not for normal variation in the dimensions at various sites in the trachea. Moreover, CT measurements are likely not entirely applicable to MRI measurements. Since cardiac MRI has become the procedure of choice to document the presence of vascular rings as well as the significance of any ring that is found, there is a need for normal values to be generated. This would in turn permit physicians to determine in cases of documented vascular rings the severity of the tracheal stenosis/deformity if found.
Abnormalities of the aorta have been identified in patients who have undergone repair of coarctation of the aorta by various surgical techniques. These abnormalities are thought to contribute to ventricular hypertrophy, hypertension and exercise intolerance. Aortic arch reconstruction is performed for a variety of lesions besides simple coarctation of the aorta; these include hypoplastic left heart syndrome and its variants. In the latter group of patients extensive reconstruction is performed usually with a pulmonary homograft. We have previously shown that the neo-aortic dimensions and geometry are abnormal. The elastic properties of the neo-aorta, however, have not previously been described.
Mild valvar pulmonary stenosis can be detected in 1/10,000 live births. Historical data suggested that most of these patients do well. Nonetheless, the majority of these patients is followed periodically by a pediatric cardiologist and may undergo repeated echocardiographic studies to follow the gradient. Such follow-up can be costly and it is not know if there is any benefit to periodic evaluation.
At Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston, it is standard of care to do a cardiac MRI on patients with the diagnosis of Tetralogy of Fallot and Aortic Coarctation to evaluate heart function. We propose to do a retrospective chart review of patient data along with their MRI data to analyze ventricular function and cavity volumes pre-Tetralogy of Fallot repair, post-Tetralogy of Fallot repair (pre-valve repair/replacement) and post-valve repair/replacement in order to assess the efficacy and optimal timing of valve replacement.
Spontaneous resynchronization of dyskinetic segments of the left ventricle occurs after coronary bypass surgery in adults and has been shown in some children. It is, however, unknown what degree of dyskinesis is likely to be reversible in infants with ischemia from anomalous coronary arteries and what criteria would indicate that a resynchronization strategy of biventricular pacing might be needed. These questions need data from quantitative serial tissue Doppler observations of patients from pre-operative to late post-operative follow-up.