Active clinical trials for "Heart Defects, Congenital"

Postoperative pain after cardiothoracic surgery can be a significant problem interfering with recovery, yet difficult to manage due to the sedating effects of opiates. These patients frequently have associated postoperative pulmonary changes and are at risk of respiratory depression with opioid analgesia. The ultrasound-guided transversus thoracic muscle plane block (TTMPB) is a recently described regional anesthetic technique showing improvements in postoperative pain management. Further investigation is needed to establish the potential of the TTMPB as an analgesic modality in congenital cardiothoracic surgery in patients under the age of 18.

Summary: Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the most prevalent form of birth defect with a global rate of 1.35 million newborns born with CHD annually. Patients with CHD have an increased risk of cerebrovascular accident (CVA) compared to age-matched control populations. Anticoagulation with warfarin is the mainstay of antithrombotic treatment in these patients and requires frequent monitoring of the International Normalized Ratio (INR). The CoaguChek monitor is a point of care device that enables patients to self-monitor and manage their INR without the need to attend a warfarin clinic. The aim of this study is to compare the efficacy and outcomes of standard clinic management and home management of INR in patients with CHD. Analysis of time in therapeutic range (TTR), INR variability, major and minor bleeding events, incidence of CVA and other thrombotic events will be undertaken. Original Hypothesis: There will be a difference in the proportion of time that patients spend in their therapeutic range and the amount of adverse events that occur between those who use a CoaguChek monitor and those who use standard clinic monitoring of their INR. The primary outcome will be time in therapeutic range (TTR). Secondary outcomes will be INR variability, minor / major bleeding complications and thromboembolic events.

This study evaluates the relevance of Copeptin in children with congenital heart disease undergoing cardiac surgery with the need of cardiopulmonary bypass. Three blood samples are taken of each patient. The first and second sample are collected in the operation room before and after the procedure and the third sample on the first postoperative day at the intensive care unit.

This repository will consist of clinically derived data and images of patients with congenital heart disease from the time of birth until they have reached one of the following outcomes: transition to outpatient care that has not resulted in readmission in 30 days after hospital discharge, death, weaned off supplementary feeding tubes, or clinic visits demonstrating clinical stability with their primary cardiologist, or full bi-ventricular cardiac surgery palliation with improvement in hemodynamic stability. This information will be collected for clinical evaluation and diagnostic purposes and will continue to be stored for potential future research application.

Tetralogy of Fallot (ToF) were cyanotic congenital heart disease with chronic hypoxia which increases the risk of exacerbated inflammatory response in ToF primary repair. Various studies have recently shown inflammatory biomarkers to predict morbidity and mortality in hypoxemic patients, but they are not readily available and expensive.This study aims to compare the prognostic value of neutrophil-lymphocyte ratio (NLR), absolute lymphocyte count (ALC), and thrombocyte-lymphocyte ratio (TLR) in predicting ToF primary repair outcomes. This was a retrospective observational study on ToF primary repair in National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita between Januari 2020 until December 2022. Preoperative NLR, ALC, and TLR were derived from blood test obtained <14 days before surgery. The primary endpoints were redo surgery, 30-day mortality, and complications. The secondary endpoints were hospital length of stay (HLOS) and postoperative LOS.

General objective of the research project: To evaluate the alterations of systemic microvascular reactivity during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB), in children submitted to cardiac surgery for repair of congenital heart defects.

The purposes of this study are to identify indicators of vision problems and ocular abnormalities in patients with a Fontan circulation through a standardized questionnaire and to correlate the intraocular pressure measured with the Icare tonometer with central venous pressure measured with the VENUS 2000 CVP non-invasive system to determine whether intraocular pressure can be used as a surrogate measure of increased central venous pressure in patients with a Fontan circulation.

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) is a wellknown comorbidity in cardiovascular disease. Knowledge about SDB in adult congenital heart disease is limited.

We are conducting a prospective cohort study of 20 children with cyanotic congenital heart disease who are admitted for cardiac surgery. We will record cerebral and somatic near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) at two sites - forehead and flank regions using the Covidien INVOS™ 5100C Cerebral / Somatic Oximeter. The monitoring will begin one hour pre-operatively (baseline) and continue until 48hours post-operatively. We will also take measurements prior to discharge from hospital. Baseline demographics, physiological and laboratory variables will be recorded. Clinical outcome variables including mortality, duration of intensive care unit (ICU) stay, duration of mechanical ventilation, inotropic support and feed tolerance will also be recorded.

The hypothesis of this study is a nutrition preoperatively in infants and children undergoing elective cardiac surgery with cardiopulmonary bypass leads to improvement in nutritional status, intervention, and that this results in good postoperative results.