[PDF] Top 20 Enteral Nutrition in Infants With Congenital Heart Disease and Growth Failure

... These data suggest that infants with congenital cardiac defects complicated by malnutrition manifest increased nutrient require- ments for growth and weight gain.. Continuous, 24-hour, n[r] ... See full document

... Congenital heart disease (CHD) is reported to have an incidence of 9 to 14 per 1000 live births with a prevalence estimated between 650,000 and ...more heart chamber(s) and/or deformity of one ... See full document

... It is concluded that calorie requirements were predictable, because the BMR and the calorie cost of weight gain were predictable. Calorie losses and muscular activity apparently did not [r] ... See full document

... postoperative nutrition, the increase in growth factors may be more directly related to the repair, which often results in resolution of congestive heart failure with improved cardio- vascular ... See full document

... breast-feeding. Infants with congenital heart disease are often critically unwell in an ICU setting, both preoperatively and in the immediate postoperative period, negating the opportunity for ... See full document

... of infants of diabetic mothers has confirmed the increased risk of cardiovascular malformations and the greatly increased risk of some specific malformations, notably Atrial Septal Defect, Patent Foramen Ovale and ... See full document

... preterm infants included gestational age, birth weight, mode of delivery, length of ICU stay, and other ...The infants’ weights at admission and discharge were adjusted for gestational age with ref- erence ... See full document

... NEWBORN INFANTS WITH CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT: THE SALVAGE OF CRITICALLY ILL. http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/42/1/198[r] ... See full document

... Hypertensive heart disease was found to be the most prevalent cardiac condition in this ...rheumatic heart disease, cardiomyopathies and pericardial diseases reflect the impact of infections ... See full document

... intubated infants required airway interventions during transport: 3 were reintubated (1 for apnea and absent chest rise with bag valve mask and 2 for unintended extubation), and 1 had the endotracheal tube ... See full document

... increase was noted in insulin-dependent diabetic and nondiabetic subjects with severe end-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis (P less than 0.001). Moderately elevated levels were also noted in some very old ... See full document

... Comparison in relation to the number of living children showed similar subsequent pregnancy rates for mothers of deceased infants with congenital heart disease and mothers of control inf[r] ... See full document

... In spite of a high dietary intake the infant’s weight remained consistently below the average reported for premature infants of his birth weight.’3 The agitation, voracious appetite, and[r] ... See full document

... An important strength of this exploratory study is the longitudinal design that created the opportunity to ad- dress the age-dependent component on the effect of en- teral feeding on intestinal perfusion. Nevertheless, ... See full document

... that infants with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, truncus arteriosus, and aortopulmonary window had increased risk of ...anatomic heart lesions that typically result in prominent reversal of forward ... See full document

... Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a group of conditions affecting the function- ing of the heart or blood vessels and is one of the leading causes of death ... See full document

... Central to normal growth and learning is brain development. Abnormal brain develop- ment is a greater issue for children with CHD (~20% of those requiring cardiac surgical intervention in infancy) compared with ... See full document

... A decision-analytic model comparing palivizumab with no prophylaxis for a hypothetical cohort of 10 000 pediatric CHD patients was constructed. We adopted the perspective of a clini- cian who must decide whether to ... See full document

... This is the first study to describe PDRs for a large cohort of neonates and infants undergoing heart surgery across the United States. Our data suggest that opportunities exist to improve prenatal CHD ... See full document

... and heart failure is thus formed, resulting in higher incidence of complications and ...with heart failure who have just been admitted to the hospital, besides treatment for heart ... See full document