title: Congenital heart disease in adolescents with gluteal muscle contracture.
abstract: Gluteal muscle contracture (GMC), presented with hip abduction and external rotation when crouching, is common in several ethnicities, particularly in Chinese. It remains unclear that the reasons why these children are weak and have no choice to accept repeated intramuscular injection. Here, we found some unique cases which may be useful to explain this question. We describe a series of special GMC patients, who are accompanied with congenital heart disease (CHD). These cases were first observed in preoperative examinations of a patient with atrial septal defect (ASD), which was proved by chest X-ray and cardiac ultrasound. From then on, we gradually identified additional 3 GMC patients with CHD. The original patient with ASD was sent to cardiosurgery department to repair atrial septal first and received arthroscopic surgery later. While the other 3 were cured postoperative of ventricular septal defect (VSD), tetralogy of fallot (TOF), patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), respectively, and had surgery directly. The study gives us 3 proposals: (1) as to CHD children, it is essential to decrease the use of intramuscular injection, (2) paying more attention to cardiac examination especially cardiac ultrasound in perioperative period, and (3) taking 3D-CT to reconstruct gluteal muscles for observing contracture bands clearly in preoperation. However, more larger series of patients are called for to confirm these findings.
authors: From the First Clinical Medical College of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China (TY, Z-gZ); and Department of Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, China (X-tZ, W-tZ).
authors: Tian
authors: T
authors: You
authors: Xin-Tao
authors: XT
authors: Zhang
authors: Zhen-Gang
authors: ZG
authors: Zha
authors: Wen-Tao
authors: WT
authors: Zhang
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D044466:Asian People; D002081:Buttocks; D003286:Contracture / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal
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