2 pages, 15 minutes to keep you informed. Beat to Beat is a monthly congenital cardiac literature review by fellows at @Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington DE
Check out April's edition of #B2B_Heartl; Peritoneal dialysis during CHD surgery admissions; MRI safety in children with epicardial leads; Surgical palliation vs primary transplant for Aortic Atresia... and more. https://t.co/GcbdcVUGCr
Check out March edition of #B2B_Heart; lots of intersting articles; Homograft vs PTFE in truncus repair; Determinants of SCD in Eisenmenger Syndrome; NEC in neonates with CHD... and more https://t.co/3I4h1DUZnu
Check out our last edition of #B2B; variety of interesting articles; #biomarker for #PHT, intraop provocation for #HCM, pediatric "passports", #sirolimus for pulmonary vein stenosis, and more
https://t.co/IDFjO8ljjR
Check out our #Beat2Beat supplemental edition #S3, summarized a few important primary source articles pertaining to #COVID19, we hope it will be a good starting point for our readers
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The annual incidence of prosthetic valve
endocarditis in patients with #TOF with #ProstheticValve was 0.4% (total 352 valves in 338 patients). Of those 50% required surgery, and 17% died from sepsis. Egbe et al #CardiolYoung doi: 10.1017/S1047951119001975
From the #PCCC data base, 1.3% of patients with #SV underwent AV or #SemilunarValve replacement. #InHospitalMortality 42% for #AVVR, and 8% for SLVR. Time to death/transplant was 2.4y in AVVR, and 4.7y in SLVR. Alshami et al. #PediatricCardiology. DOI: 10.1007/s00246-019-02234-9