The Pulse – April 2019 Archive
The Pulse is a summary of relevant news and articles for Congenital Heart Professionals and highlights:
The Parent Checklist
Featured Content
What’s Been Happening?
Congenital Cardiology Today Latest Issue
ACHA Webinar
CHIP Network Partner Organizations
Congenital Cardiology Today - Latest Issue ACHD Echo Protocols
April 2019; Volume 17; Issue 4 North American Edition
Treatment Options for Severe Functional Tricuspid Regurgitation: Indications,
Techniques and Current Challenges
By Christian Besler, MD; Joerg
Seeburger, MD; Holger Thiele, MD;
Philipp Lurz, MD, PhD – p. 1
Transition of Care for Congenital Heart Patients: Challenges, Opportunities, and
Pathways for Providers
By Wayne J. Franklin, MD – p. 109
Featured Content
- Cardiovascular Risk in Pediatric Patients
American College of Cardiology - Diagnosis and management of syncope: Slide-set now available
European Society of Cardiology Guidelines - Incidentally Discovered Anomalous Coronary Artery in a Recreational Athlete
American College of Cardiology - Loeys-Dietz Syndrome: Medical and Surgical Management Outcomes
American College of Cardiology - Report Shows Plateau of Physician Compensation, Decrease in Gender Wage Gap
American College of Cardiology - Assessment of Coronary Arteries in Children
American College of Cardiology - Function and Dysfunction of the Right Ventricle
American College of Cardiology - FDA Update: Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Affecting Medtronic ICDs and CRT-Ds
American College of Cardiology - Artificial Intelligence Can Improve Emergency X-ray Identification of Pacemakers
DAIC - Diabetes Drug Effective Against Heart Failure in Wide Spectrum of Patients
DAIC - Compression-Only CPR Increases Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Survival
DAIC
The Parent Checklist

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What's Been Happening?
Pediatric Cardiology Links
- Three-dimensional visualisation of the fetal heart using prenatal MRI with motion-corrected slice-volume registration: a prospective single-centre cohort study
Google Alerts: The Lancet - Tricuspid Valve Imaging and Intervention in Pediatric and Adult Patients With Congenital Heart Disease
Google Alerts: American College of Cardiology - Newborn Heart Problems Surged After Fukushima Nuke Disaster: Study
Google Alerts: U.S. News & World Report - Closing the Disclosure Gap: Medical Errors in Pediatrics
Google Alerts: AAP News - Treatments for childhood cancer can devastate lives years later. Scientists are trying to change that
Google Alerts: Science Magazine - Polysplenia Syndrome a Risk Factor for Early PH, Study Suggests
Google Alerts: Pulmonary Hypertension News - Clinical presentation and survival of childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: a retrospective study in United Kingdom
Google Alerts: European Heart Journal - Babies more likely to have congenital heart defects when fathers smoke
Google Alerts: Cardiovascular Business - Anticoagulation therapy and the risk of perioperative brain injury in neonates with congenital heart disease
Google Alerts: MD Linx - This Fitbit-style baby bracelet was invented to try to beat cot death
Google Alerts: Evening Standard - Predicting Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension
Google Alerts: Pulmonology Advisor - Detailed images of baby heart inside the womb
Google Alerts: BBC News - Pediatric PAH Diagnosis and Management: A Clinical Roundtable
Google Alerts: The Cardiology Advisor
Science Links
- The relationships between democratic experience, adult health, and cause-specific mortality in 170 countries between 1970 and 2016: an observational analysis
Google Alerts: The Lancet - Mild congenital heart defects tied to CVD events
Google Alerts: Medical - Substantial cardiovascular morbidity in adults with lower-complexity congenital heart disease
Google Alerts: MD Linx
Health Academics and Politics Links
- Parents of Belfast boy with heart condition fear impact of Brexit on cardiac services
Google Alerts: Belfast Telegraph
Cardiomyopathy Links
- Isolated right-ventricular hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with midcavitary obstruction and high intracavitary pressure gradient
Google Alerts: CROSBI - Institut Ruđer Bošković
Marfan Links
Adult Congenital Heart Disease
- 2018 AHA/ACC Guideline for the Management of Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
Google Alerts: JACC - Big data analytics in adult congenital heart disease: why coding matters
Google Alerts: Oxford Journals - Oxford University Press - Post-partum cardiovascular outcomes among women with heart disease- from a nationwide study
Google Alerts: MD Linx - Infective endocarditis related to IV drug use increasing hospital admissions, changing treatment paradigm
Google Alerts: Healio - High burden of drug therapy in adult congenital heart disease
Google Alerts: Oxford Journals - Oxford University Press - Three-dimensional visualisation of the fetal heart using prenatal MRI with motion-corrected slice-volume registration: a prospective single-centre cohort study
Google Alerts: The Lancet - Consensus statement endorses multidisciplinary teams for PFO closure
Google Alerts: Healio - Morbidity During Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Admissions
Google Alerts: Springer Link - Catheter Ablation for Atrial Tachycardia in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease
JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology - Idiopathic right atrial dilatation and recurrent atrial flutter
Google Alerts: CROSBI - Institut Ruđer Bošković
General Interest Links
- [News analysis] Examining the cause behind Gore's withdrawal from South Korea
Google Alerts: The Hankyoreh - Sunday ACC 2019: Mixed Reality Offers Advantages of Virtual and Augmented Realities
Google Alerts: Diagnostic and Interventional Cardiology (press release) (blog) - Saturday ACC 2019: How Machine Learning Empowers Echo Users Today
DAIC - A Patient's Guide to Congenital Heart Disease
Google Alerts: U.S. News & World Report - Chinese hospital uses VR in heart surgery training
Google Alerts: Jakarta Post - Harvard Geneticist to Receive Vanderbilt Prize in Biomedical Science
Google Alerts: Newswise (press release)
International Links
- Let Iraqi baby into Israel for emergency surgery, group implores minister
Google Alerts: The Times of Israel - Baby twins stranded in Glasgow hospital awaiting heart surgery
Google Alerts: Evening Times - Health Minister Opens Paediatric Cardiac Centre at Children's Hospital
Google Alerts: Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information - US embassy clarifies visa issuance to Nigerians
Google Alerts: Journalducameroun.com - English - Kerala Creates Green Corridor for Ambulance Carrying 15-Day-Old Baby With Ailing Heart From Managluru to Kochi
Google Alerts: LatestLY - Children's Cardiac Foundation of Africa launched
Google Alerts: 702
Human interest Stories
- Baby Girl Who Underwent Heart Surgery While in the Womb Is Heading Home from the Hospital
Google Alerts: PEOPLE.com - 'Three rings, three medals': Tedy Bruschi is running the 2019 Boston Marathon for a personal cause
Google Alerts: Boston.com
ACHA Webinars for Patients and Families
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Grant Opportunities
Children’s Cardiomyopathy Foundation (CCF) Grant Program
CCF has a grant program, as well as a joint grant programs with the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Heart Association, promoting research in pediatric cardiomyopathy.
CHIP Network Partner Organizations
Adult Congenital Heart Association Association for European Paediatric and Congenital Cardiology
Asia Pacific Society for ACHD
Asia Pacific Pediatric Cardiac Society
British Congenital Cardiac AssociationCanadian Adult Congenital Heart Network
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta
Children’s National Medical Center
Congenital Cardiac Anesthesia Society
Congenital Cardiology Today
Congenital Heart Surgeons Society
International Society for Adult Congenital Heart Disease
Iranian Society of Pediatric Cardiology
Japanese Society for ACHD
Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute
Pediatric and Congenital Electrophysiology Society
Pediatric Cardiac Society of India
Paediatric Cardiac Society of South Africa
Pan Arab Congenital Heart Disease Association
PCICS
PICS
The Royal Brompton Hospital
Turkish Association of Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery
On behalf of the CHiP Network, thank you for reading!
Sincerely,
Gary Webb, MD
CHiP Network

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