Postoperative Cardiac Arrhythmias in Pediatric and Neonatal Patients with Congenital Heart Disease-A Narrative Review.

ABSTRACT: Cardiac arrhythmias are a frequent complication in the evolution of patients with congenital heart disease. Corrective surgery for these malformations is an additional predisposition to the appearance of arrhythmias. Several factors related to the patient, as well as to the therapeutic management, are involved in the etiopathogenesis of cardiac arrhythmias occurring post-operatively. The risk of arrhythmias in the immediate postoperative period is correlated with the patient's young age and low weight at surgery. The change in heart geometry, hemodynamic stress, and post-surgical scars represent the main etiopathogenic factors that can contribute to the occurrence of cardiac arrhythmias in the population of patients with operated-on congenital heart malformations. Clinical manifestations d

SUBMITTER: Ganea G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10744555 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature