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Lantheus Announces the FDA Approval of DEFINITY as Ultrasound Enhancing Agent for Use in Certain Pediatric Cardiovascular Patients

DAIC

Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA) has approved DEFINITY (Perflutren Lipid Microsphere) as an ultrasound enhancing agent for use in pediatric patients with suboptimal echocardiograms, including those who have undergone heart transplant, or have Kawasaki disease or a congenital cardiovascular anomaly. Lantheus announced that the U.S.

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Instructors' collection ECG: Pediatric ECG: One month old infant

ECG Guru

Echocardiogram during that time showed stiff pulmonic valve. The patient: 4 week old female infant with past medical history of meconium aspiration at birth with APGAR scores of 2,4,6. Intubated and given nitric oxide for pulmonary hypertension. Weaned in NICU over 10 days. This ECG was obtained at follow up appointment.

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Progressive Left Ventricular Remodeling for Predicting Mortality in Children With Dilated Cardiomyopathy: The Pediatric Cardiomyopathy Registry

Journal of the American Heart Association

Changes in LVFS, LVEDD, LV end‐diastolic posterior wall thickness, and the LV end‐diastolic posterior wall thickness:LVEDD ratio between baseline and follow‐up echocardiograms acquired ≈1 year after diagnosis were determined for children who, at the 1‐year follow‐up had died, received a heart transplant, or were alive and transplant‐free.

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Interplay between mitochondrial dysfunction and lysosomal storage: challenges in genetic metabolic muscle diseases with a focus on infantile onset Pompe disease

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine

Methods We performed a retrospective analysis to examine the clinical manifestations, genetic traits, and the relationship between PD and mitochondrial function in a pediatric patient.

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Novel AI Platform Matches Cardiologists in Detecting Rheumatic Heart Disease

DAIC

Developed at Children’s National Hospital and detailed in the latest edition of the Journal of the American Heart Association , the new AI system combines the power of novel ultrasound probes with portable electronic devices installed with algorithms capable of diagnosing RHD on echocardiogram.

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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. And following the valve implantation procedure, doctors assess the valve’s integrity and blood flow control through an echocardiogram.

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A child with biphasic T waves in V1-V2

Dr. Smith's ECG Blog

We believe they are likely a normal variant in this context, and the study above failed to identify any clinically significant finding after exam and echocardiogram in 110 children with bifid T waves. It is important to remember that pediatric tracings manifest a number of differences from adult ECGs.