Search

Various cardiac malformations would default to a single ventricle physiology. The Glenn bidirectional cavopulmonary connection (BCPC) is the second stage in a multistage surgical palliation pathway. Objective of this study is to compare BCPC outcomes in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Cardiogenic shock is defined as an acute circulatory failure due to impaired myocardial contractility. Cardiogenic shock is a rare disease in children. Both cardiomyopathy (CMP) and congenital heart disease (CHD) can cause heart failure and lead to cardiogenic shock. There is limited data on

The role of anticoagulation (AC) in patients with infective endocarditis (IE) remains uncertain. There is paucity of information about the efficacy and safety due to lack of randomized control trials and conflicting results reported by observational studies. We aimed to evaluate outcomes of IE with

Ventricular arrhythmia (VA) is common in patients supported with left ventricular assist device (LVAD). Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) is a well-established therapy for malignant VA. Observational studies demonstrated improved mortality with using ICD in pulsatile but not in continuous

Cardiac arrhythmia (CA) is a common complication in orthotopic heart transplant (OHT) recipients. We sought to assess the burden and predictors of CA in hospitalized OHT recipients. We used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample 2002-2014 to identify OHT recipients by using ICD-9 codes. We excluded