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Environ Epigenet 2022 5;8(1):dvac015. Epub 2022 Jul 5.

Department of Psychiatry, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia.

As prenatal and community cannabis exposures have recently been linked with congenital heart disease (CHD), it was of interest to explore these associations in Europe in a causal framework and space-time context. Congenital anomaly data from Eurocat, drug-use data from the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, and income from the World Bank. Countries with rising daily cannabis use had in general higher congenital anomaly rates over time than those without (time: status interaction: β-Est. Read More

Front Cardiovasc Med 2022 29;9:898289. Epub 2022 Jul 29.

Fuwai Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing, China.

Background: Pulmonary atresia (PA) is a heterogeneous congenital heart defect and ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most vital factor for the conventional classification of PA patients. The simple dichotomy could not fully describe the cardiac morphologies and pathophysiology in such a complex disease. We utilized the Human Phenotype Ontology (HPO) database to explore the phenotypic patterns of PA and the phenotypic influence on prognosis. Read More

Anatol J Cardiol 2022 Aug 9. Epub 2022 Aug 9.

Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Wales Cardiff, Wales, UK.

Background: The aim of this study is to review the spectrum of the prenatally detected absent pulmonary valve syndrome and its outcome after diagnosis.

Methods: Clinical data and echocardiographic findings of 37 cases with a fetal diagnosis of absent pulmonary valve syndrome between 2008 and 2020 were analyzed in this ret- rospective multicenter study.

Results: Median gestational age at diagnosis was 25 weeks. Read More

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022 May 17. Epub 2022 May 17.

Cardiac Center of Guangdong Women and Children Hospital, Guangzhou, Guangdong, P.R. China.

Objective: Several surgical techniques for repair of a complete atrioventricular septal defect have been developed. However, the postoperative complications with these methods may lead to reoperation during follow-up. The aim of this report is to share our experience with a modified surgical technique for complete atrioventricular septal defect that has anatomic advantages postoperatively and could reduce the reoperation rate. Read More

Egypt Heart J 2022 Aug 4;74(1):57. Epub 2022 Aug 4.

Pediatric Cardiology Division, Department of Pediatrics, King Abdulaziz University, P.O Box 80215, Jeddah, 21589, Saudi Arabia.

Background: Cardiac catheterization is usually done routinely in patients with univentricular hearts before palliative Bidirectional Glenn (BDG) surgery. The objective of this study was to compare the outcomes of patients with physiological univentricular hearts and restrictive pulmonary flow that did not undergo routine cardiac catheterization before BDG with the patients that did have cardiac catheterization done. We retrospectively reviewed the data of all patients with single ventricle physiology and restrictive pulmonary blood flow who underwent BDG surgery from January 2016 till December 2020. Read More