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We sought to prospectively characterize and compare the symptoms of children > or = 5 years of age with recurrent abdominal pain to previously established criteria for irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) in adults. For all eligible subjects, a detailed questionnaire concerning characteristics of abdominal pain and defecatory pattern was completed at presentation. In addition, a battery of screening tests was performed and additional evaluation was done at the discretion of their physician. In all, 227 subjects fulfilled the entrance criteria, but 56 were subsequently excluded because of diagnoses of inflammatory bowel disease (nine cases), lactose malabsorption (46 cases), or celiac disease (one case). Of the remaining 171 patients, 117 had IBS symptoms. In the IBS subjects, lower abdominal discomfort (p < 0.001), cramping pain (p < 0.0009), and increased flatus (p < 0.0003) were more common, whereas dyspeptic symptoms such as epigastric discomfort (p < 0.003), pain radiating to the chest (p < 0.009), and regurgitation (p < 0.02) were more common in the non-IBS subjects. Our study not only confirms the clinical heterogeneity of children with recurrent abdominal pain but also concomitantly demonstrates that most children with this disorder have symptoms that fulfill the standardized criteria for IBS in adults. The identification of subgroups of children with recurrent abdominal pain can provide a framework for the diagnosis of functional bowel disease as well as establish the need for invasive and expensive tests.
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PMID:Characterization of symptoms in children with recurrent abdominal pain: resemblance to irritable bowel syndrome. 913 90

The Fontan procedure is a technique used in single ventricle syndromes and initiates a circulation which bypasses the right ventricle. It was described by Fontan in 1971. Many variations of this operation have been described and classified under the term of total cavopulmonary derivation. These operations result on long-term functional benefit. However, the 15 year survival rate is only 55 to 80%. This procedure (often carried out in childhood) is considered to be palliative rather than curative. The mortality is due to long-term complications, the frequency of which increases with the length of follow-up of the patient. The causes are: the Fontan circulation itself (arrhythmias, thrombosis, inferior caval stasis (hepatic, exsudative enteropathy), recurrence of cyanosis): the underlying cardiac disease (ventricular failure, atrioventricular valvular regurgitation); other complications (endocarditis and extracardiac, in particular orthopedic problems). Any of these complications may be an indication for cardiac transplantation, a high risk procedure because of previous multiple surgical interventions.
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PMID:[Followup of adults with a Fontan-type cavopulmonary derivation]. 1250 Jun 36

Tetralogy of Fallot is the most common cyanotic heart disease. Its operative mortality and long-term result are quite good in these days. At the late phase after the correction, pulmonary valve regurgitation associated with right side heart failure, aortic valve regurgitation, arrhythmia and sudden death become major adverse outcomes. Double-outlet right ventricle is a cyanotic heart disease with a wide spectrum of morphology and is divided according to the site of ventricular septal defect: subaortic, subpulmonary, doubly committed and remote type. Its operative methods are completely dependent on its morphology, and vary such as intracardiac tunnel repair, Rastelli type repair, arterial switch procedure and Fontan type repair. Left ventricular outflow tract obstruction is one of the most important problems after the correction. Recent operative strategies for the treatment of tricuspid atresia and single ventricle are quite similar and its final goal is the completion of right heart bypass operation using total cavo-pulmonary connection with staging strategy. Pleural effusion, ascites, protein loosing enteropathy and supraventricular arrhythmia are major adverse outcomes after Fontan type repair, while extracardiac total cavopulmonary connection is expected to reduce the incidence of supraventricular arrhythmia.
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PMID:[Cyanotic heart disease. Part 2]. 2191 80