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Zheleva B, Verstappen A, Overman DM, Ahmad F, Ali SKM, Al Halees ZY, Atallah JG, Badhwar IE, Baker-Smith C, Balestrini M, Basken A, Bassuk JS, Benson L, Capelli H, Carollo S, Chowdhury D, Çiçek MS, Cohen MI, Cooper DS, Deanfield JE, Dearani J, Del Valle B, Dodds KM, Du J, Edwin F, Ekure E, Fatema NN, Gomanju A, Hasan B, Henry L, Hugo-Hamman C, Iyer KS, Jatene MB, Jenkins KJ, Karamlou T, Karl TR, Kirklin JK, Kreutzer C, Kumar RK, Lopez KN, Macedo AP, Marino BS, Marwali EM, Meijboom FJ, Mattos SS, Najm H, Newlin D, Novick WM, Qureshi SSA, Rahmat B, Raylman R, Saltik IL, Sable C, Sandoval N, Saxena A, Scanlan E, Sholler GF, Smith J, St Louis JD, Tchervenkov CI, Tiong KG, Vida V, Vosloo S, Weinstein DJD, Wilkinson JL, Zuhlke L, Jacobs JP. Advocacy at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. Cardiol Young 2023; 33:1277-1287. [PMID: 37615116 DOI: 10.1017/s1047951123002688] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 08/25/2023]
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The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery (WCPCCS) will be held in Washington DC, USA, from Saturday, 26 August, 2023 to Friday, 1 September, 2023, inclusive. The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery will be the largest and most comprehensive scientific meeting dedicated to paediatric and congenital cardiac care ever held. At the time of the writing of this manuscript, The Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery has 5,037 registered attendees (and rising) from 117 countries, a truly diverse and international faculty of over 925 individuals from 89 countries, over 2,000 individual abstracts and poster presenters from 101 countries, and a Best Abstract Competition featuring 153 oral abstracts from 34 countries. For information about the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, please visit the following website: [www.WCPCCS2023.org]. The purpose of this manuscript is to review the activities related to global health and advocacy that will occur at the Eighth World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery.Acknowledging the need for urgent change, we wanted to take the opportunity to bring a common voice to the global community and issue the Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action on Addressing the Global Burden of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Diseases. A copy of this Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is provided in the Appendix of this manuscript. This Washington DC WCPCCS Call to Action is an initiative aimed at increasing awareness of the global burden, promoting the development of sustainable care systems, and improving access to high quality and equitable healthcare for children with heart disease as well as adults with congenital heart disease worldwide.
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- Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- The Children's Heart Clinic, Children's Minnesota, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Pakistan Children's Heart Foundation, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Sudan Heart Center & University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan
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- King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- National Pediatric Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- National Pediatric Hospital JP Garrahan, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Nemours Cardiac Center, Wilmington, DE, USA and Cardiology Care for Children, Lancaster, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Istanbul University, Istanbul Faculty of Medicine, and Liv Hospital VadIstanbul-Istinye University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for Children and University College London, London, UK
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- Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic-Children's Minnesota Cardiovascular Collaborative, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
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- Ho School of Medicine, University of Health & Allied Sciences; Ho Teaching Hospital, Volta Region, Ghana
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- College of Medicine, University of Lagos & Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Lagos, Nigeria
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- Global Alliance for Rheumatic and Congenital Hearts, Kathmandu Institute of Child Health, Kathmandu, Nepal
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- Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation, Karachi, Pakistan
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- Cardiac Kids Foundation of FL, Oldsmar, FL, USA
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- Harvard Medical School, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
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- Paediatric Cardiac Research, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Kochi, KL, India
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- Texas Children's Hospital/Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
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- Instituto Nacional de Pediatría; Centro Pediátrico del Corazón CM-ABC; Kardias AC, Mexico City, Mexico
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- National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Real Hospital Português de Beneficência em Pernambuco, Círculo do Coração, Recife, Brazil
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- Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- William Novick Cardiac Alliance, University of Tennessee Health Science Center Global Surgical Institute, Memphis, TN, USA
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- National Cardiovascular Center Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Children's National Hospital, Children's National Health System, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
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- Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Pt. B.D. Sharma University of Health Sciences, Rohtak, India
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- Heart Centre for Children, Sydney Children's Hospitals Network & University of Sydney, Westmead, Australia
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- Inova Fairfax Hospital and Inova L.J. Murphy Children's Hospital, Fairfax, and Children's Hospital of Georgia and Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
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- The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Royal Children's Hospital and University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
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- University of Cape Town; South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Cardiac Kids Foundation of FL, Oldsmar, FL, USA
- Congenital Heart Center, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Tchervenkov CI, Herbst C, Jacobs JP, Al-Halees Z, Edwin F, Dearani JA, Finucane K, Sandoval N, Sarris GE, Fragata J, Abdulgani HB, Arboleda M, Bacha EA, Barron DJ, Becker P, Boumzebra D, Cervantes J, Elgamal A, Helvind MH, Iyer KS, Jatene MB, Jun TG, Kirklin JK, Kreutzer C, Lee C, Lotto AA, Manuel V, Maruszewski B, Najm H, Overman D, Rahmat B, Reddy D, Sakamoto K, Samankatiwat P, Sivalingam S, St Louis JD, Stellin G, Stephens EH, Tretter JT, Truong NLT, Tweddell JS, Vida V, Vosloo S, Zhang H, Zheleva B, Jonas RA. Current Status of Training and Certification for Congenital Heart Surgery Around the World: Proceedings of the Meetings of the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2021; 12:394-405. [PMID: 33942697 DOI: 10.1177/21501351211003520] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The optimal training of the highly specialized congenital heart surgeon is a long and complex process, which is a significant challenge in most parts of the world. The World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery (WSPCHS) has established the Global Council on Education for Congenital Heart Surgery as a nonprofit organization with the goal of assessing current training and certification and ultimately establishing standardized criteria for the training, evaluation, and certification of congenital heart surgeons around the world. The Global Council and the WSPCHS have reviewed the present status of training and certification for congenital cardiac surgery around the world. There is currently lack of consensus and standardized criteria for training in congenital heart surgery, with significant disparity between continents and countries. This represents significant obstacles to international job mobility of competent congenital heart surgeons and to the efforts to improve the quality of care for patients with Congenital Heart Disease worldwide. The purpose of this article is to summarize and document the present state of training and certification in congenital heart surgery around the world.
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- Christo I Tchervenkov
- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, 10040The Montreal Children's Hospital of the McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, 27271Medical University of Vienna, Austria
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- Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA
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- Heart Center, 37852King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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- National Cardiothoracic Centre, Accra, Ghana.,University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
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- Department of Cardiac Surgery, Fundacion Cardioinfantil-Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota, Colombia
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Santa Marta Hospital, NOVA Medical School, Lisbon, Portugal
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- Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Instituto Nacional Cardiovascular (INCOR), Lima, Peru
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- Department of Surgery, Section of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Columbia University New York-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, New York, NY, USA
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- Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- Cardiovascular Surgery Unit, Mohamed VI University Hospital, Marrakech, Morocco
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- Department of Pediatric Cardiac and Congenital Heart Surgery, Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Ignacio Chavez, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Mansoura University Children's Hospital, Mansoura, Egypt
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- Department of Congenital Heart Surgery, Rigshospitalet, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Pediatric & Congenital Heart Surgery, Fortis-Escorts Heart Institute, New Delhi, India
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- Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA
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- Division of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery, Hospital Universitario Austral, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Seoul St. Mary's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Republic of Korea
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- Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Alder Hey Children's Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom
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- Cardiovascular Surgery, Clinica Girassol, Luanda, Angola
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- Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Children's Memorial Health Institute, Warsaw, Poland
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA
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- Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery Division, National Cardiovascular Center, Harapan Kita, Jakarta, Indonesia
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- Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Nelson R. Mandela School of Medicine, Durban, South Africa
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Mount Fuji Shizuoka Children's Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan
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- Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, National Heart Institute, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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- Departments of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Georgia, Augusta University, Augusta, GA, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Department of Pediatrics, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Children's Heart Center, National Children's Hospital, Hanoi, Vietnam
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- Cardiothoracic Surgery, Heart Institute, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical, Cincinnati, OH, USA
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- Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, University of Padova, Padova, Italy
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- Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- Shanghai Children's Medical Center and National Medical Center, Shanghai, China
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- Cardiac Surgery, Center for Neuroscience Research, Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC, USA
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Edwin F, Elgamal MA, Dorra A, Reddy D, Entsua-Mensah K, Adzamli I, Yao NA, Tettey M, Tamatey M, Vosloo S, Kinsley R. Challenges of Caring for Functionally Single Ventricle Patients in Africa. World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2019; 10:338-342. [PMID: 31084309 DOI: 10.1177/2150135118817769] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Surgical palliation has remarkably improved survival of functionally single ventricle (FSV) patients born in developed nations but such outcomes have not occurred in Africa. The poor care coverage for FSV patients in Africa exists within the larger sphere of deficient health care for children born with congenital heart defects (CHDs) in Africa generally. This review takes the position that to improve health-care coverage for CHD patients on the continent, political priority is paramount. This can be attained with cohesive leadership for the CHD agenda, a guiding institution, and the mobilization of civil society to drive advocacy at national and international levels.
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- Frank Edwin
- 1 Department of Surgery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.,2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
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- 4 Cardiology Department, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia
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- 5 Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, Durban, South Africa.,6 Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban, South Africa
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- 2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
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- 2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
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- 2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
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- 2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana.,7 School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana
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- 1 Department of Surgery, University of Health and Allied Sciences, Ho, Ghana.,2 National Cardiothoracic Centre, Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Accra, Ghana
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- 8 Christiaan Barnard Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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- 6 Lenmed Ethekwini Hospital and Heart Centre, Durban, South Africa
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Vosloo S. Cardiac transplantation in South Africa. S Afr Med J 1996; 86 Suppl 3:C128-9. [PMID: 8768774] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
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Vosloo S. Heart transplantation in South Africa--the sad reality. S Afr Med J 1995; 85:786-7. [PMID: 8553153] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023] Open
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Human PA, Holl J, Vosloo S, Hewitson J, Brink JG, Reichenspurner H, Boehm D, Rose AG, Odell JA, Reichart B. Extended cardiopulmonary preservation: University of Wisconsin solution versus Bretschneider's cardioplegic solution. Ann Thorac Surg 1993; 55:1123-30. [PMID: 8494420 DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90018-d] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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Application of the University of Wisconsin cold storage solution has rapidly expanded to include medium-term to long-term preservation of virtually all intraabdominal organs. Its use in intrathoracic organ transplantation has also been suggested. We therefore examined the efficacy of the University of Wisconsin solution in a primate allotransplantation model for preservation of hearts, and as a simple single-solution system for static preservation of heart-lung blocks, for periods of ischemia ranging from 6 to 24 hours. For comparison, we employed the histidine-tryptophane-ketoglutarate cardioplegic solution of Bretschneider. University of Wisconsin solution provided superior results with regard to clinical outcome and hemodynamic recovery of hearts after ischemic periods of up to 16 hours. This was in contrast to Bretschneider's solution, which allowed storage of hearts for periods of only up to 10 hours. Heart-lung blocks were equally well preserved with either University of Wisconsin or Bretschneider's solution after 6 to 12 hours, although the University of Wisconsin solution group exhibited a more notable increase in pulmonary water content. This was in accordance with histological data, which suggested that, although hemodynamic recovery of hearts stored for periods longer than 10 hours was poor, preservation of pulmonary ultrastructure was far superior using Bretschneider's solution as compared with University of Wisconsin solution after an ischemic period of up to 16 hours.
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- P A Human
- Department of Cardiotheoracic Surgery, University of Cape Town Medical School, Republic of South Africa
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- N J Buckels
- Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
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Vosloo S, Reichart B. The feasibility of closed mitral valvotomy in pregnancy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1987; 93:675-9. [PMID: 3573780] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Rheumatic mitral valve stenosis is an important nonobstetric complication of pregnancy in an African country. Between January 1965 and September 1985 41 closed mitral valvotomies with a Tubbs dilator were performed in 39 pregnant women (two first trimester, 22 second trimester, and 17 third trimester). All patients experienced symptomatic improvement from New York Heart Association Class 3.01 (average) preoperatively to 1.22 postoperatively. There were no deaths related to the operation and delivery. Fetal deaths were due to postoperative spontaneous abortion in two cases (4.9%) or premature labour in three cases (7.3%), for an overall survival of 36 babies (87.8%). Fetal morbidity was due to prematurity or dismaturity in three infants, all of whom survived. Thirty-three normal infants were delivered at term. Nine patients needed subsequent surgical procedures for mitral valve restenosis 5 to 17 years (mean 10.2 years) after the initial closed valvotomy: Repeat closed valvotomy was performed in three patients after 5, 8, and 10 years (the first two during subsequent pregnancies), an open procedure was performed in one after 6 years, and five patients underwent subsequent mitral valve replacement after 11 (two), 12 (two), and 17 (one) years. Two late deaths occurred; one after 10 years, as a result of pneumonia and meningitis, and the other after 12 years, before a mitral valve replacement for restenosis could be performed. None of the remaining patients has required further surgical procedures, but two have moderate symptoms. Closed mitral valvotomy gives satisfactory results in pregnant patients with severe mitral stenosis. When indicated during pregnancy, it should be performed at any stage of the pregnancy.
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Vosloo S, Reichart B, Morgan JA. False aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta caused by an inhaled foreign body. A case report. S Afr Med J 1986; 70:628-9. [PMID: 3775578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023] Open
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A case of traumatic false aneurysm of the descending thoracic aorta is reported. The aneurysm was caused by the inhalation of a needle into the left main bronchus. The diagnosis of a false aneurysm was made 42 days after inhalation. The aneurysm was repaired by direct suture without the need for circulatory assistance or a shunt. There were no intra- or postoperative complications.
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Sanchez HE, Vosloo S. Blalock-Taussig shunts and modified Blalock-Taussig shunts. S Afr Med J 1985; 67:168-70. [PMID: 3983755] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Between January 1981 and December 1983, 53 systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts, Blalock-Taussig shunts (BTSs) and modified Blalock-Taussig shunts (MBTSs) were carried out either as a preliminary procedure before complete correction of heart defects or as a means of permanent palliation. Central shunts continue to pose early and late problems and we seldom use them. Fifteen patients underwent a BTS and 38 an MBTS with a 5 mm polytetrafluoro-ethylene (PTFE) graft. Their ages ranged from 3 days to 11 years; 21 patients were less than 3 months old and of these 15 had an MBTS; 36 patients were less than 1 year of age and 27 of them had an MBTS. Three patients were receiving prostaglandin at the time of surgery. The overall early hospital mortality was 5,6% (3 cases); these were babies less than 2 months old. The late mortality was 3,7% (2 cases); these deaths were not shunt-related and were in babies less than 4 months old. There were 4 cases of shunt failure (7,5%) at 6, 22, 26 and 27 months after operation; a second shunt was performed in all these patients. The 48 survivors have been followed up for an average of 23 months (range 5-41 months); 6 have already undergone a complete repair. Long-term results are difficult to assess accurately because of problems with follow-up. Eight of the 53 patients had mild congestive heart failure which responded to digitalis. Because of the reliability and excellent late patency of the PTFE prosthesis, we consider it to be superior to the Waterston shunt for relief of cyanosis in the neonate and infant and as reliable as the BTS.
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Sanchez HE, Vosloo S. Pulmonary artery banding. S Afr Med J 1985; 67:171-3. [PMID: 3983756] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Between January 1981 and December 1983 22 children underwent pulmonary artery banding at the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town. The indications for banding in this group were control of pulmonary overperfusion and severe congestive cardiac failure. The underlying cardiac defects were tricuspid atresia with ventricular septal defect (VSD), transposition of the great arteries and univentricular heart, large or multiple VSDs, double-outlet right ventricle, atrioventricular canal defect, persistent truncus arteriosus and the VSD-patent ductus arteriosus-coarctation syndrome. Three children died (13,6%) in the first 30 days postoperatively and another 3 died 5-7 weeks after surgery.
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