Timothy B. Cotts

TL;DR: The effects of CO VID‐19 in the pediatric and young adult population are described and the cardiovascular involvement in COVID‐19 focusing on implications for patients with congenital heart disease in particular are reviewed.

TL;DR: The RV ejection fraction and age of repair were the best predictors of quality of life in this population, in whom end-diastolic forward flow and associated diastolic parameters appeared to reflect an overdistended ventricle, which might suggest a role for early pulmonary valve replacement.

TL;DR: Transition knowledge deficits are common and associated with decreased self-efficacy and self-management skills in adolescents and young adults with heart disease and greater transition knowledge and perceived self-efficiency are associated with better psychosocial QOL.

TL;DR: Requirement for tracheostomy in pediatric patients after cardiac surgery was associated with significant mortality and patients with single ventricle have the highest late death rate and those with chronic ventilator dependency were unlikely to undergo successful Fontan completion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) in adults with CHD and to identify risk factors associated with adverse outcomes was defined. But the most vulnerable patients are those with worse physiological stage, such as cyanosis and pulmonary hypertension, whereas anatomic complexity does not appear to predict infection severity.