Pediheart: Pediatric Cardiology Today

This week's podcast explores the adult Fontan patient and the substantial challenges these patients face. We review 2 very recent articles on adult Fontan patients and explore the topic further with Dr. Ali Zaidi, Director of The Adult Congenital Heart Program at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Zaidi has a number of insights into these papers based upon his extensive clinical experience. This episo...

On this podcast we explore two very recent papers on the topic of cardiac catheterization. The first is a large study reviewing the impact of NaHC03 + /- acetylcysteine on prevention of contrast nephropathy and the second is a comparison of endocarditis rates in surgical versus transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement. Dr. Gentian Lluri, the first author of the PVR paper joins us to discuss this...

This episode is in memory to Dr. Arthur Moss. We have today Dr. David Auerbach who was a key recent collaborator to review his 2 new recent works with Dr. Moss on the effects of antiseizure and antidepressant medications on LQTS patients. The discussion is very interesting and Dr. Auerbach shares his warm feelings for Dr. Moss with the audience. Finally, we end the podcast with a brief piece of op...

Today we have 2 wonderful guests - Dr. Kenan Stern of Mt. Sinai Medical Center in NY, NY and Dr. Nadine Choueiter speaking on 2 different papers/topics. The papers reviewed are: Utility of a standardized postcardiopulmonary bypass epicardial echocardiography protocol for stage I Norwood palliation and Environmental epidemiology of Kawasaki disease: Linking disease etiology, pathogenesis and global...

We review 2 articles today: Prevalence and risk factors associated with non-attendance in neurodevelopment follow-up clinic among infants with CHD - Cardiology in the Young 2018 Psychiatric Disorders and Function in Adolescents with Tetralogy of Fallot - J Peds 2017 Both wonderful works that analyze under appreciated areas of care for our patients with CHD. Please review our podcast on iTunes - yo...