Cardiac performance and left ventricular dimensions in neonates with left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia before and after surgical repair
Mohamed Mahmoud Shalaby, Fatma Aboalsoud Taha · 2026
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Mohamed Mahmoud Shalaby and Fatma Aboalsoud Taha follow, in a 2026 prospective study, the hearts of newborns born with a left-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia around the time of surgical repair. Babies with this defect face lung and circulation trouble, and a small, strained left ventricle often decides how they fare, yet serial heart measurements across the operation were scarce.
Thirty term newborns at a tertiary center had detailed ultrasound heart scans within a day before repair, again two to three days after, and once more at one month. Significant pulmonary hypertension was present before surgery in 70 percent of the babies. After repair, left ventricular dimensions, both raw and size-adjusted, grew significantly at the early and one-month checks, while several measures of pumping function dipped significantly in the early period. The authors chart a heart reshaping itself as circulation normalizes.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohamed Mahmoud Shalaby, Fatma Aboalsoud Taha |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 34436 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |