Background: Kawasaki disease is an acute vasculitis of childhood that leads to coronary
artery aneurysms in ≈25% of untreated cases. It has been reported worldwide and is the …

Although for most children the process of atherosclerosis is subclinical, dramatically accelerated
atherosclerosis occurs in some pediatric disease states, with clinical coronary events …

It has been 50 years since Francis Fontan pioneered the operation that today bears his name.
Initially designed for patients with tricuspid atresia, this procedure is now offered for a vast …

Background The Norwood procedure with a modified Blalock–Taussig (MBT) shunt, the first
palliative stage for single-ventricle lesions with systemic outflow obstruction, is associated …

Objectives. Our purpose was to assess the risk factors for late mortality, loss of sinus rhythm
and atrial flutter after the Mustard operation. Background. The Mustard operation provides …

SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children Page 1
Correspondence The new england journal of medicine n engl j med nejm.org 1 SARS-CoV-2 …

Background: Understanding the clinical course and short-term outcomes of suspected
myocarditis after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) vaccination has important public …

Background Treatment of acute Kawasaki disease with intravenous immune globulin and
aspirin reduces the risk of coronary-artery abnormalities and systemic inflammation, but …

Objectives : We characterized a large cohort of children who had a Fontan procedure, with
measures of functional health status, ventricular size and function, exercise capacity, heart …

However, an obesity-related increase in BP has not been documented in all studies. In the
Bogalusa Heart Study, which used the mean of 6 resting BP measurements instead of 2 or 3 …