Sudden death in patients with right isomerism (asplenism) after palliation

Journal of Pediatrics

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 93-96

  Wu, Mei Hwan ^a   Wang, Jou Kou ^a   Lue, Hung Chi ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASPLENIA; BLOOD CULTURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HEART DEATH; HEART DISEASE; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFANT; ISOMERISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA; YEAST;

EID: 0036161748     PISSN: 00223476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mpd.2002.120510     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. Sudden death and tetralogy of Fallot: Risks, markers and causes
2. Tricuspid atresia presenting in infancy: Survival and suitability for the Fontan operation
3. Double-inlet ventricle presenting in infancy
4. Causes of death after the modified Norwood procedure: A study of 122 postmortem cases
5. Cardiac malpositions with special emphasis on visceral heterotaxy (asplenia and polysplenia syndromes)
6. Clinical recognition of atrial isomerism
7. Morphological considerations pertaining to recognition of atrial isomerism, Consequences for sequential chamber localization
8. Analysis of atrioventricular junction, ventricular mass, and ventriculoarterial junction in 43 specimens with atrial isomerism
9. Syndromes of asplenia and polysplenia: A review of cardiac and non-cardiac malformations in 60 cases with special reference to diagnosis and prognosis
10. Disposition of the atrioventricular conduction tissues in the heart with isomerism of the atrial appendages: Its relation to congenital complete heart block
11. The cardiac conduction system in situ is ambiguous
12. Supraventricular tachycardia in patients with right atrial isomerism
13. Two-dimensional echocardiographic diagnosis of situs
14. Usefulness of magnetic resonance imaging in the assessment of venoatrial connection, atrial morphology, bronchial situs, and other anomalies in right atrial isomerism
15. Usefulness of electron beam computed tomography in children with heterotaxy syndrome
16. A population-based prospective evaluation of risk of sudden cardiac death after operation for common congenital heart defects
17. Classification of deaths after myocardial infarction as arrhythmic or nonarrhythmic (the cardiac arrhythmia pilot study)
18. Nonparametric estimation from incomplete observation
19. Familiar asplenia, other malformations, and sudden death
20. Management and outcome of infants and children with right atrial isomerism
21. Asplenia as a cause of sudden unexpected death in childhood
22. Gross and histologic anatomy of total anomalous pulmonary venous connections
23. Total, uncomplicated, anomalous pulmonary venous connection: Morphologic observations on 13 necropsy specimens from infants
24. Electrophysiological properties of dual AV nodes in patients with right atrial isomerism
25. Immunologic study of the asplenia syndrome
26. Congenital asplenia: Immunologic assessment and a clinical review of eight surviving patients