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Adjunct Targeted Biologic Inhibition Agents to Treat Aggressive Multivessel Intraluminal Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Ryan Callahan, Mark W. Kieran, Christopher W. Baird, Steven D. Colan, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Christina M. Ireland, Audrey Marshall, Laureen M. Sena, Sara O. Vargas, Kathy J. JenkinsBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center. UMass Memorial Medical Center.United States Journal of PediatricsJ Pediatr 2018; 198: 29-35DOI: 10.1016/j.jpeds.2018.01.029 AbstractObjective: To evaluate

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Hybrid Pulmonary Vein Stenting in Infants with Refractory to Surgical Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Repair

Ja Kyoung Yoon, Gi Beom Kim, Mi Kyoung Song, Eun Jung Bae, Woong Han Kim, Jae Gun Kwak, Jeong Ryul LeeSeoul National University Children’s Hospital. Sejong General Hospital. Republic of Korea Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2018; 39: 1642-1649DOI: 10.1007/s00246-018-1944-2 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is still a frustrating disease with extremely high mortality, especially in children with multiple

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Outcomes and prognostic factors for postsurgical pulmonary vein stenosis in the current era

David Kalfa, Emre Belli, Emile Bacha, Virginie Lambert, Ducciodi Carlo, Martin Kostolny, Matej Nosal, Jurgen Horer, Jukka Salminen, Jean Rubay, Illya Yemets, Mark Hazekamp, Bohdan Maruszewski, George Sarris, Hakan Berggren, Tjark Ebels, Onur Baser, Francois Lacour-Gayet and the European Congenital Heart Surgeons AssociationMorgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University. Marie Lannelongue Hospital.

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Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in Infants: A Systematic Review, Meta-Analysis, and Meta-Regression

Carl H. Backes, Erin Nealon, Aimee K. Armstrong, Clifford L. Cua, Courtney Mitchell, Usha Krishnan, Rachel D. Vanderlaan, Mi Kyoung Song, Nicola Viola, Charles V. Smith, Patrick I. McConnell, Brian K. Rivera, Jeffrey BridgeNationwide Children’s Hospital and The Ohio State University. Columbia University. University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children. Seoul National University Children’s

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Rare cause of cardiac failure in an infant

Claudio Henriques, Helena Andrade, Antonio PiresPaediatric Hospital.Portugal Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2019; 29: 711-713DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000428 AbstractCongenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins is a rare condition whose outcome is guarded despite the available treatment options. We report a case of a 6-month-old infant with significant stenosis of all four pulmonary veins. CategoryClass II. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated

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Repair of Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection: Risk Factors for Postoperative Obstruction

Brian R. White, Deborah Y. Ho, Jennifer A. Faerber, Hannah Katcoff, Andrew C. Glatz, Christopher E. Mascio, Paul Stephens Jr., Meryl S. CohenChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2019; 108: 122-129DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.02.017 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary venous obstruction after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) results in substantial morbidity and mortality. Risk

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Death or resolution: the “natural history” of pulmonary hypertension in bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Gabriel Altit, Shazia Bhombal, Rachel K. Hopper, Theresa A. Tacy, Jeffrey FeinsteinMcGill University and Montreal Children’s Hospital – McGill University Health Centre. Stanford University School of Medicine and Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital. Canada and United States Journal of PerinatologyJ Perinatol 2019; 39: 415-425DOI: 10.1038/s41372-018-0303-8 AbstractObjectives: The primary objective was to describe the early “natural history” of pulmonary

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Assessing the recently noted surgical outcome of isolated total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair: A single-secondary center experience

Eun-Young Choi, Chang-Ha Lee, Su-Jin Park, So-Ick Jang, Eun Sun KimSejong General Hospital. Kangwon National University.Republic of Korea Journal of Cardiac SurgeryJ Card Surg 2019; 34: 1526-1532DOI: 10.1111/jocs.14284 AbstractBackground and aim of the study: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a rare cyanotic congenital heart defect. This study aimed to evaluate the outcome of isolated TAPVC

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Mortality in infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: Data from cardiac catheterization

Martina A. Steurer, Hythem Nawaytou, Elyssa Guslits, Elizabeth Colglazier, David Teitel, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Roberta L. KellerUniversity of California, San Francisco.United States Pediatric PulmonologyPediatr Pulmonol 2019; 54: 804-813DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24297 AbstractRationale: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is relatively common in infants with severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), however, hemodynamic data and factors associated with mortality in this patient group are sparsely

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Stroke After Cardiac Catheterization in Children

Dana B. Harrar, Catherine L. Salussolia, Patrick Vittner, Amy Danehy, Sonali Sen, Robert Whitehill, Jessica H. Chao, Miya E. Bernson-Leung, Michael J. RivkinBoston Children’s Hospital.United States Pediatric NeurologyPediatr Neurol 2019; 100: 42-48DOI: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2019.07.005 AbstractBackground: Children with cardiac disease are at high risk for stroke. Approximately one-quarter of strokes in children with cardiac disease occur in the peri-procedural

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