Eisenmenger Ventricular Septal ...
This study aimed to examine the definition and indications for surgery, to elucidate the morphologic substrate of aortic regurgitation, and to extra ...
Usefulness of Fetal Three-Dimen ...
Congenital heart defects (CHDs) occur in 1% of live-born infants and frequently are associated with extracardiac malformations. This study aimed to ...
The Neonatal But Not the Mature ...
The force–frequency relationship (FFR) reflects alterations in intracellular calcium cycling during changing heart rate (HR). Tachycardia-induced he ...
Comparison of Posterolateral Th ...
This study was designed to compare the longterm clinical outcomes and costs between video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and posterolateral thorac ...
2010 Riley Heart Center Symposi ...
Heart failure, a common event in childhood with significant morbidity and mortality, has an impact on both children and adults. In adult medicine, h ...
Disturbance of Glucose Homeosta ...
This study aimed to evaluate the time course of perioperative blood glucose levels of children undergoing cardiac surgery for congenital heart disea ...
Catheter Balloon Adjustment of ...
The study aimed to assess the feasibility and safety of increasing pulmonary artery band (PAB) diameter by catheter-based PAB balloon dilation (PABB ...
An Institutional Approach to In ...
Complete vascular occlusions are rare but potentially lethal. Reports on transcatheter therapy are limited to solitary case reports. The study was c ...
Pulmonary Vascular Resistance a ...
Calculating pulmonary vascular resistance is important in many fields of medicine. Although the influence of hematocrit on calculated resistance has ...
Coding Single-Nucleotide Polymo ...
This study aimed to examine whether coding single-nucleotide polymorphisms (cSNPs) of the interleukin- 1 gene cluster [interleukin-1-alpha (IL1a), I ...
Peroxisome Proliferator Activat ...
Cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of mortality among patients with diabetes, and heart failure exists even in the absence of coronary diseas ...
Transpulmonary Thermodilution i ...
Measurement of the global end-diastolic volume index (GEDI) by transpulmonary thermodilution (TPTD) has become a useful technique for measuring pre ...
Outcome of Acute Graft Rejectio ...
We sought to analyze the outcome of hemodynamically significant acute graft rejection in pediatric heart transplant recipients from a single-center ...
Feeding Complications in Hypopl ...
Gastrointestinal and feeding complications after the Norwood procedure in infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome increases morbidity and morta ...
Cardiac Tamponade in a Child Wi ...
Systemic-onset juvenile idiopathic arthritis (SoJIA) is a multisystem disease characterized by high fever, rash, arthritis, serositis, splenomegaly, ...
Combination of texture analysis ...
Summary Twenty-one excised femurs were studied using (1) a high-resolution digital X-ray device to estimate three textural parameters, (2) dual-ener ...
Gender differences for initiati ...
Summary The prospective, observational Direct Assessment of Nonvertebral Fracture in the Community Experience (DANCE) study shows that, among patien ...
Treatment for older men with fr ...
Summary Less than 10% of men receive osteoporosis treatment, even after a fracture. A study of 17,683 men revealed that older men, those with spinal ...
Association between weight chan ...
Summary During a 10-year follow-up of 893 women of various ages from the Japanese Population-based Osteoporosis Cohort Study, we evaluated the relat ...
Fracture risk prediction using ...
Summary We evaluated the predictive ability of FRAX® in a cohort of 815 Japanese women. The observed 10-year fracture rate did not differ significan ...
A naturally occurring rare anal ...
Summary The effect of quercetin C-glucoside (QCG) on osteoblast function in vitro and bone formation in vivo was investigated. QCG supplementation p ...
In peripubertal girls, artistic ...
Summary Peripubertal artistic gymnasts display elevated areal bone mineral density at various bone sites, despite delayed menarche and a high freque ...
Alendronate and atrial fibrilla ...
Summary In this meta-analysis of all Merck-conducted, placebo-controlled clinical trials of alendronate, the occurrence of AF was uncommon, with mos ...
Association between vitamin K i ...
Summary A cross-sectional analysis of 1,662 community dwelling elderly Japanese men suggested that habitual natto intake was significantly associate ...
Ethnic difference of clinical v ...
Summary Vertebral fractures are the most common osteoporotic fractures. Data on the vertebral fracture risk in Asia remain sparse. This study observ ...