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PECA Labs Receives Expanded CE Mark for exGraft Family of Vascular Grafts, Allowing for Expandability Designed to Match Growth or Help Avoid Restenosis

DAIC

Post-operative expansion is designed to allow for increasing graft diameter, which may enable the graft to match growth in pediatric populations or help to avoid restenosis (narrowing) in adults. Pre-operatively, the controlled dilation may help address unique anatomies. pediatric hospital centers.

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Medtronic Receives CE Mark for Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement System

DAIC

Harmony TPV system clinical trials demonstrate ease of implant, conformability to the anatomy, and strong clinical and hemodynamic outcomes for congenital heart disease patients up to three years.

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The mechanics of congenital heart disease: from a morphological trait to the functional echocardiographic evaluation

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Advances in pediatric cardiac surgery have resulted in a recent growing epidemic of children and young adults with congenital heart diseases (CHDs). In these patients, congenital defects themselves, surgical operations and remaining lesions may alter cardiac anatomy and impact the mechanical performance of both ventricles.

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SPONSORED CONTENT: Unveiling the Future of Cardiovascular Workflow

DAIC

Using machine learning algorithms, InView’s Categorical Hanging Image Protocol(CHIP) automatically organizes images by anatomy and pathology categories to intelligently display or “hang” current and prior studies in a way that significantly improves the efficiency of single or multi-modality image review. As well, by incorporating Us2.ai’s

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Autus Valve | The expandable artificial heart valve

Wellnest

The prototype valve has two leaflets crafted from a polymer material that has a well-established history of being used as a leaflet for pediatric pulmonary valves. To their success, they discovered that this device could be fitted and expanded in sync with the growth of the heart anatomy.

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Basics of Echocardiography

All About Cardiovascular System and Disorders

A good knowledge of the anatomy of the heart is needed for interpretation of images from each view. Subcostal view is a favourite view of pediatric echocardiographers. The four common locations at which the echocardiographic transducer is placed for imaging are the parasternal, apical, subcostal, and suprasternal.

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Relationship Between Obesity and Global Longitudinal Strain in the Pediatric Single Ventricle Fontan Population Across Ventricular Morphologies

Journal of the American Heart Association

BackgroundObesity is associated with diminished myocardial function as measured by strain echocardiography in children and young adults with normal cardiac anatomy. Journal of the American Heart Association, Ahead of Print. Data are lacking about the effect of obesity on myocardial strain in patients with a single ventricle.

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