Oral flecainide is effective in management of refractory tachycardia in infantsVikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India Electronic address
Indian Heart J 65:168-71. 2013
..Propranolol and digoxin have been used as first line drugs for treatment of supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) in infants. Flecainide and other drugs have been effective as a second line treatment for controlling refractory SVT...
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty following Kawasaki DiseaseVikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian Pediatr 48:233-5. 2011
..Angioplasty was done which resulted in improvement in the flow. Follow up angiography a year later showed recurrence of total occlusion...
- Posttransplant complex inferior venacava balloon dilatation after hepatic vein stenting
Vikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 33:205-8. 2010
..The patient required double-balloon dilatation of the IVC simultaneously from the internal jugular vein and IVC...
- Neonatal cardiac interventions: an Indian perspective
Vikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 76:207-14. 2009
..This article focuses on the spectrum of neonatal interventions in a contemporary pediatric cardiac centre in India...
- Balloon dilation of the pulmonary valve in premature infants with tetralogy of Fallot
Vikas Kohli
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi 110044, India
Pediatr Cardiol 29:946-9. 2008
..8 and 1.6 kg) with ToF and desaturation for whom balloon dilation of the pulmonary valve showed good results. Neither infant required palliative surgery. At this writing, one infant has already undergone complete repair...
- Voriconazole in newborns
Vikas Kohli
Apollo Center for Advanced Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian Pediatr 45:236-8. 2008
..We report the first case series of safe Voriconazole use in critically ill newborns with cardiac disease along with several other cardiac drugs without any significant drug interaction or side-effect...
- Central line retrieval in a neonate
Vikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgical Unit, Apollo Centre for Advanced Pediatrics, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 74:692-3. 2007
..Here we describe a preterm baby with a migrated PICC line enmeshed on the pulmonary valve. This was retrieved by snare from the pulmonary valve. The technique is described as also the challenges related to doing this in a small baby...
- Surgical reconstruction for absence of sternum and pericardium in a newborn
Vikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 73:367-8. 2006
..The repair described is innovative and may be used in place of primary repair by bringing the ribs together. Review of embryology and various modalities of closure are provided...
- Balloon dilatation of pulmonary valve in Tetralogy of Fallot's
Vikas Kohli
Department of Cardiology, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, Sarita Vihar, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 72:181. 2005
..This modality of management should be considered in selected patients to change a palliative surgery to an intervention...
- Infective endocarditis
Vikas Kohli
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata, India
Indian J Pediatr 69:333-9. 2002
..Duke criteria for diagnosis of IE and the role of echocardiography in diagnosis of IE are discussed. There is special emphasis on the prevention of IE...
- Pentalogy of Cantrell with left ventricular diverticulum: a case report and review of literature
Navdeep Singh
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Congenit Heart Dis 5:454-7. 2010
..Antenatal ultrasound can also detect the anomaly, and early postnatal diagnosis of the syndrome, followed by immediate surgical repair, can prevent lethal complications...
- Innominate artery compression of trachea
Manvinder Singh Sachdev
Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 74:768-9. 2007
..Reimplantation of the innominate artery resulted in excellent results with longterm follow up. Variantions of this condition and modalities for confirmation of diagnosis are discussed...
- Post-op systemic hypertensive crises in an infant with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Vikas Kohli
Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Surgery Unit, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 76:755-6. 2009
..We feel this might have been related to the pre-operative hemodynamics as described. Beta-blockers improved the hypertensive crises...
- Gastrointestinal bleed with clopidogrel and aspirin
Vikas Kohli
Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Cardiac Centre, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi, India
Indian J Pediatr 77:101-2. 2010
..This combination has been known to produce similar bleeds. The authors recommend caution in combining them. Prospective studies currently underway should evaluate this aspect of the antiplatelet drugs...
