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Vol 2 Issue 3	May 2007

Reference Page

Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Medicine: The Evolution of a New Sub-Specialty in Pediatrics

Adnan T. Bhutta, M.D., M.B.B.S., F.A.A.P.; Co-Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Instructor, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.

1- PC Jenkins, MF Flanagan, et al. Survival Analysis and Risk Factors for Mortality in Transplantation and Staged Surgery for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. JACC Vol. 36, No. 4, 2000 Jenkins et al. 1179
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2- AJ Marelli, AS Mackie, et al: Congenital Heart Disease in the General Population:
Changing Prevalence and Age Distribution. Circulation 2007; 115; 163-172.
3- AC Chang- Pediatric cardiac intensive care: current state of the art and beyond the millennium. Current Opinion in Pediatrics 2000, 12:238–246.
4- D Stromberg: Pediatric cardiac intensivists: Are enough being trained? Pediatr Crit Care Med 2004 Vol. 5(4):391-392  

Oral Health and Congenital Heart Disease

Sana Ullah, M.D., Pediatric Cardiothoracic Anesthesiologist, Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.

www.americanheart.org  See Web site for 2007 Guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis.

Sports and the Child with Heart Disease

Sylvia S. Angtuaco , M.D., Pediatric Cardiologist, Arkansas Children’s Hospital; Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine.

Pellicia A, Fagard R, Bjornstad HH  et al. Recommendations for competitive sports participation in athletes with cardiovascular disease, European Heart Journal 2005; 26:1422-1445.

The Task Force on the Management of Grown Up Congenital Heart Disease of the European Society of Cardiology. Management of Grown Up Congenital Heart Disease, European Heart Journal 2003;24:1035-1084.

Silka MJ, Hardy BG, Menashe VD, et al. A population-based prospective evaluation of risk of sudden cardiac death after operation for common congenital heart defects, J Am Coll Cardiol 1998;32:245-251.

Wren C. Sudden death in children and adolescents, Heart 2002;88:426-431.

Wren C, O'Sullivan JJ, Wright C. Sudden death in children and adolescents. Heart 2000;83:410–3.