Survivors often experience neurodevelopmental deficits and behavioral and emotional problems. These complications often have a profound impact on quality of life in this high-risk population. This review will focus on the most significant and innovative studies that have been published over the last 18 months that focus on predicting, evaluating, and managing neurodevelopmental outcomes in children with CHD.
Recent findingsRecent
reports demonstrate new potential predictors of worse neurodevelopmental outcome, including abnormal fetal cerebrovascular resistance, brain biomarkers, and abnormalities in electroencephalogram (EEG) Small molecule library during the perioperative period, and new stratification schemata. In addition, a new evidence-based scientific statement from the American Heart Association (AHA) and American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) describing how to evaluate and manage neurodevelopmental outcomes in children and adolescents with CHD and novel interventions to improve Cyclopamine in vivo neurodevelopmental outcomes will be reviewed.
SummaryThe literature reviewed reveals new intervention opportunities to improve neurodevelopmental outcome in the fetus (cerebrovascular resistance), during the perioperative period (brain biomarkers
and EEG), and through the utilization of new stratification schemata. The new AHA/AAP guidelines on the evaluation and management of neurodevelopmental outcomes create the opportunity to identify and treat a significant population of survivors with neurodevelopmental deficits with novel interventions.”
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< 900 mmHg/s and high contractility > 900 mmHg/s, and in each group, compared between %AS < 50 and > 50 using analysis of variance. In the presence of MVD, between the %AS < 50 and > 50 groups, values of CDP (71 +/- 1.4 and 121 +/- 1.3) and LFC (0.10 +/- 0.04 and 0.19 +/- 0.04) were significantly different (P < 0.05), under low-contractility conditions. A similar %AS trend was observed under high-contractility conditions (CDP: 18 +/- 1.4 and 91 +/- 1.4; LFC: 0.08 +/- 0.04 and 0.25 +/- 0.04). Under MVD conditions, similar to fractional flow reserve, CDP and LFC were not influenced by contractility.”
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