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Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Seventeen-year surgical experience

R. K. Lamb, S. A. Qureshi, J. L. Wilkinson, R. Arnold, C. R. West, D. I. HamiltonRoyal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.United Kingdom Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1988; 96: 368-375DOI: Not Available AbstractBetween 1968 and 1985, 80 children underwent correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. There were 47 boys and 33 […]

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Interventional cardiac catheterization procedures in pediatric cardiac transplant patients: transplant surgery is not the end of the road

Gira S. Morchi, Biagio Pietra, Mark M. Boucek, Kak-Chen ChanThe Children’s Hospital and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.United States Cathetrization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 72: 831-836.DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21725 AbstractObjectives: The objectives of this study are to report the spectrum of cardiac lesions in pediatric patients post-orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), the characteristics of patients who develop

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Pulmonary venous obstruction from left atrial thrombus in hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Angela Romano, Paul M. Weinberg, Paul K. Woolf, Victoria L. VetterChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 1989; 10: 105-107DOI: 10.1007/BF02309923 AbstractThe formation of intracardic thrombi in infants with cogenital heart disease is quite uncommon. We describe an infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in whom a left atrial thrombus developed over the course of

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Surgical outcomes of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair: a 22-year experience

Massimo A. Padalino, Giacomo Cavalli, Marco De Franceschi, Daniela Mancuso, Nocola Maschietto, Vladimiro Vida, Ornella Milanesi, Giovanni StellinUniversity of Padova Medical School. Italy Journal of Cardiac SurgeryJ Card Surg 2014; 29: 678-685DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12399 AbstractBackground: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a rare congenital heart disease (CHD), whose surgical repair is associated with high mortality and reoperation

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A Neonate With Cytokine Storm Managed With Steroids, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, and Tocilizumab

Amy LiKamWa, Kaitlin Kobaitri, Balagangadhar R. TotapallyHerbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.United States CureusCureus 2023; 15DOI: 10.7759/cureus.45138 AbstractNeonatal cytokine storms, though rare, can induce hyperinflammation due to elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6), triggering multiorgan failure. We present the case of a term male neonate necessitating extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) post-birth for persistent pulmonary hypertension due to

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Pulmonary venous atrial obstruction after the Senning procedure: relief by catheter balloon dilatation

John D. Coulson, Rufus B. Jennings Jr., David H. JohnsonEastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.United States British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1990; 64: 160-162DOI: 10.1136/hrt.64.2.160 AbstractPulmonary venous atrial stenosis developed after a modified Senning procedure in an infant with transposition of the great arteries. The pulmonary venous atrium was surgically revised,

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Isolated pulmonary vein atresia

S. Cullen, P. F. Deasy, E. Tempany, D.F. DuffOur Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children.Ireland British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1990; 63: 350-354DOI: 10.1136/hrt.63.6.350 AbstractTwo patients with isolated atresia of the pulmonary veins are described. One patient presented with haemoptysis and the other with recurrent unilateral chest infections. The diagnosis was confirmed in both instances by cardiac

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[Radical correction of paracardiac type IIb of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection using pedicled flaps of right atrium and atrial septum]

O. Miki, Y. Imai, H. Kurosawa, K. Matsuo, Y. Koh, M. HamawakiHeart Institute of Japan.Japan Journal of the Japanese Association for Thoracic SurgeryNihon Kyobu Geka Gakkai Zasshi 1990; 38(6):1030-1034DOI: Not Available AbstractSurgical results of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) has been improved in recent years, however, late development of pulmonary venous obstruction was our

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Longitudinal results after first-stage palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome

John N. Meliones, A. Rebecca Snider, Edward L. Bove, Amnon Rosenthal, David A. RosenC.S. Mott Children’s Hospital and University of Michigan Medical Center.United States CirculationCirculation 1990; 82(5 Suppl): IV151-IV156DOI: Not Available AbstractTo evaluate the results of palliative surgery for hypoplastic left heart syndrome, we reviewed the records of 57 infants who underwent first-stage reconstruction at

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Use of endovascular stents in congenital heart disease

Martin P. O’Laughlin, Stanton B. Perry, James E. Lock, Charles E. MullinsTexas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States CirculationCirculation 1991; 83: 1923-1939DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.83.6.1923 AbstractBackground: Balloon expandable intravascular stents have been used to support vessel walls in coronary and peripheral arteries in adults. The purpose of this study was

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