High-Risk Cardiac Disease in Pregnancy

Uri Elkayam, Sorel Goland, Petronella Pieper and Candice Silverside.
(UCLA, Jeruselam, Groningen - Netherlands & Toronto)

Good review articles covering most important lesions.

Part I - JACC 2016;68(4): 396-410.
Part II - JACC 2016;68(5): 502-16.

Late Causes of Death After Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Alireza Raissadati et al. JACC 2016;68:487-98.
From Finland.

1953-2009
Divided into two surgical era: 1953-89 & 1990-2009.

Cardiac causes of mortality:
Heart failure
Pulmonary hypertension
Sudden death (Aortic rupture, Arrhythmia, MI - majority were unexplained)
Death after reoperation

Non-cardiac causes of mortality:
Respiratory disease (esp. pneumonia associated with mental disability)
Neurologic and infectious diseases
Neoplasm (more common compared to general population)
Accidents (alcohol-related)

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