Brian W. McCrindle

TL;DR: These recommendations provide updated and best evidence-based guidance to healthcare providers who diagnose and manage Kawasaki disease, but clinical decision making should be individualized to specific patient circumstances.

TL;DR: In children undergoing the Norwood procedure, transplantation-free survival at 12 months was better with the RVPA shunt than with the MBT shunt, and the rate of nonfatal serious adverse events at the age of 12 months were similar in the two groups.

TL;DR: In this paper, an update of the 2003 American Heart Association Scientific Statement on Obesity, Insulin Resistance, Diabetes, and Cardiovascular Risk in Children from the Atherosclerosis, Hypertension, and Obesity in the Young Committee (Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the young) and the Diabetes Committee (council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism).

TL;DR: In this article, a panel of experts reviewed what is known about very premature cardiovascular disease in 8 high-risk pediatric diagnoses and, from the science base, developed practical recommendations for management of cardiovascular risk.

TL;DR: This scientific statement was written to review the current literature on the noninvasive assessment of atherosclerosis in children and adolescents, make recommendations for the standardization of these tools for research, and stimulate further research with a goal of developing valid and reliable techniques with normative data for nonin invasive clinical evaluation of atheosclerosis in Pediatrics.