Cardiac surgery using cardiopulmonary bypass produces a generalized systemic
inflammatory response, resulting in increased postoperative morbidity and mortality. Under …

Background Due to the great advances in the care of patients with congenital heart disease
(CHD), mortality has decreased significantly over the last decades. Nonetheless, mortality …

Objective: To determine the association between catheter-related thromboses and
hereditary causes of thrombophilia, including the factor V Leiden mutation, deficiencies of …

Objectives: To examine whether the line dividing the septum into two layers is found
consistently by conventional echocardiography and to evaluate functional differences in the …

Based on myocardial Doppler echocardiography, regional strain (S) and strain rate (SR) can
be evaluated as regional parameters of ventricular function. The use of these techniques in …

Myocarditis represents an important cause for acute heart failure. MYKKE, a prospective
multicenter registry of pediatric patients with myocarditis, aims to gain knowledge on …

Objective To characterise patients with trisomy 21 (Down syndrome, DS) based on the data
of the German National Register for Congenital Heart Defects, to identify changes in the …

The global myocardial function in patients after repair of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) can be
assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) and measurement of B-type …

Objective. The complex structural geometry of the right ventricle hinders accurate
assessment of right ventricular volume and function on conventional two‐dimensional …

Background Right ventricular volume quantification using real-time three-dimensional
echocardiographic (RT3DE) imaging is limited by technical shortcomings of acquisition and …