Cardiovascular Replacement Therapy in Children

Overview Medicines Hemodilution Complications Demographics Congenital Diseases and ECMO Case Study: 16 mo VSD References

Heart Valves

Overview Diseases of the Heart Valves Treatment Options Quality of Life Post-Op Costs References

VADs

Overview When It's Used Treatment Post-Op Case Study 1: 5 Month Old Case Study 2: Pedi Bridge to Transplant References

Stents

Overview Pediatric Stents NuMed Case Study: 4 year old Success References

Pacemakers

Overview Conditions Requiring a Pacemaker Types of Arrhythmias Diagnosis and Treatment Implantation Post-Op Case Study: Miss Massachussets Future Alternatives References

Transplantation

Overview The Surgery Surgery Outcomes Quality of Life Costs References

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Welcome to the BIOL1080 Final Project Webpage for Aditi Dubey, Anthony Roggio, Dipal Shah, Hezhi Gan, and Robert Kim.

(For more Organ Replacement information, and to return to the main BIOL1080 Project Page, click here)

Every year, thousands of children are born with congenital heart defects. Of these children:

4–10 percent have atrioventricular septal defect.
8–11 percent have coarctation of the aorta.
9–14 percent have tetralogy of Fallot.
10–11 percent have transposition of the great arteries.
14–16 percent have ventricular septal defects.
4–8 percent have hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Other children will develop acquired heart disease. These include:

Arrhythmias. The projected incidence estimate for supraventricular tachycardia alone is 1–4 per 1,000.
Cardiomyopathies.
Kawasaki disease.
Rheumatic fever.
Familial hypercholesterolemia will affect the future of an unknown but probably large number of children.
Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) with its myocarditis.

These defects require varying degrees of medical intervention and often necessitate heart function replacement therapies [1].

On this webpage, we have attempted to provide a full spectrum of the existing neonatal and pediatric cardiovascular replacement therapies currently in use and development.

References:

1)American Heart Association. 25 Apr. 2008 <http://www.americanheart.org/>

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