International journal of cardiology
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Multicenter Study
Impaired pulmonary function and its association with clinical outcomes, exercise capacity and quality of life in children with congenital heart disease.
Impaired pulmonary function is an independent predictor of mortality in adult congenital heart disease (CHD), but has been scarcely studied in the paediatric CHD population. ⋯ These results suggest that pulmonary function should be monitored early in life, from childhood, in the CHD population.
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There are limited data on prolonged invasive mechanical ventilation (IMV) and tracheostomy use in intubated acute myocardial infarction with cardiogenic shock (AMI-CS) patients. ⋯ In this cohort of intubated AMI-CS admissions, prolonged IMV and tracheostomy showed a temporal decrease between 2000 and 2014. Prolonged IMV and tracheostomy use was associated with high resource utilization.