Background Social determinants of health (SDH) can substantially impact health outcomes.
A systematic review, however, has never been conducted on associations of SDH with …

Background People with a Fontan circulation experience a range of physical, psychosocial
and neurodevelopmental challenges alongside, or caused by, their cardiac condition, with …

Background—Fetal aortic valvuloplasty can be performed for severe midgestation aortic
stenosis in an attempt to prevent progression to hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). A …

Background Children and adolescents operated upon for congenital heart disease (ConHD)
may show reduced exercise capacity and physical activity, possibly associated with lowered …

Abstract Background The Single Ventricle Reconstruction (SVR) Trial was the first
randomized clinical trial of a surgical approach for treatment of congenital heart disease …

Fetal interventions for congenital heart disease : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Fetal
interventions for congenital heart disease : Current Opinion in Pediatrics Log in or Register …

BACKGROUND: Elevated ventricular filling pressure is a marker of diastolic dysfunction and
a known risk factor for failure of single-ventricle surgical palliation. Doppler …

PurposeIt is important to identify those children with a Fontan circulation who are at risk for
impaired health-related quality of life. We aimed to determine the predictive value of …

BACKGROUND: In postnatal life, patients with single ventricle (SV) with morphologic right
ventricles have a worse prognosis than those with morphologic left ventricles. The aim of this …

Introduction Single-ventricle patients with elevated pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) or
end-diastolic pressure (EDP) are excluded from undergoing total cavopulmonary connection …