Nutrition and growth in congenital heart disease: a challenge in children

B Medoff-Cooper, C Ravishankar - Current opinion in cardiology, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Optimizing nutritional intake has been targeted as a key component of the National Pediatric
Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative. This initiative has enabled the development …

Nutrition support for children undergoing congenital heart surgeries: a narrative review

JJM Wong, IM Cheifetz, C Ong… - World Journal for …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Energy imbalance in infants and children with congenital heart disease (CHD) is common
and influenced by age, underlying cardiac diagnoses, and presence or absence of …

Nutritional status based on body mass index is associated with morbidity and mortality in mechanically ventilated critically ill children in the PICU

LJ Bechard, C Duggan, R Touger-Decker… - Critical care …, 2016 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To determine the influence of admission anthropometry on clinical outcomes in
mechanically ventilated children in the PICU. Design: Data from two multicenter cohort …

Intracoronary autologous cardiac progenitor cell transfer in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: the TICAP prospective phase 1 controlled trial

S Ishigami, S Ohtsuki, S Tarui, D Ousaka… - Circulation …, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Rationale: Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) remains a lethal congenital cardiac
defect. Recent studies have suggested that intracoronary administration of autologous …

[HTML][HTML] Transcoronary infusion of cardiac progenitor cells in hypoplastic left heart syndrome: Three-year follow-up of the Transcoronary Infusion of Cardiac Progenitor …

S Tarui, S Ishigami, D Ousaka, S Kasahara… - The Journal of thoracic …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objectives Our aim was to assess midterm safety and clinical outcomes of intracoronary
infusion of cardiosphere-derived cells (CDCs) after staged palliation in patients with …

Human milk use in the preoperative period is associated with a lower risk for necrotizing enterocolitis in neonates with complex congenital heart disease

A Cognata, J Kataria-Hale, P Griffiths, S Maskatia… - The Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective To evaluate the hypothesis that feeding volumes exceeding 100 mL/kg/d and
exposure to cow's milk formula preoperatively increase the risk for preoperative necrotizing …

Nutritional status and clinical outcome in postterm neonates undergoing surgery for congenital heart disease

R Mitting, L Marino, D Macrae, N Shastri… - Pediatric Critical Care …, 2015 - journals.lww.com
Objective: Poor growth is a common complication in infants with congenital heart disease.
There has been much focus on low birth weight as having increased risk of adverse …

Growth restriction in infants and young children with congenital heart disease

CL Costello, M Gellatly, J Daniel… - Congenital heart …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Objective The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of growth restriction in
infants and young children with congenital heart disease (CHD) and investigate the …

Preoperative malnutrition is associated with increased mortality and adverse outcomes after paediatric cardiac surgery

F Ross, G Latham, D Joffe, M Richards… - Cardiology in the …, 2017 - cambridge.org
BackgroundMalnutrition is common in children with CHD and is likely to place them at an
increased risk for adverse surgical outcomes. We sought to evaluate the impact of …

Ventilator-associated pneumonia in newborn infants diagnosed with an invasive bronchoalveolar lavage technique: a prospective observational study

M Cernada, M Aguar, M Brugada… - Pediatric critical care …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
Objectives: To establish the incidence, etiology, risk factors, and outcomes associated with
ventilator-associated pneumonia using an invasive sampling technique to avoid …