Class 1. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Congenital Cardiovascular Disease

Short-Term Impact of Cardiac Intervention on the Nutritional Status of Malnourished Children with Congenital Heart Disease – A Report from a Developing African Country, Ethiopia

Kidist Tesfaye, Temesgen TsegaTirunesh Beijing Hospital. Saint Paul Hospital Millennium Medical College.Ethiopia Pediatric Health, Medicine and TherapeuticsPediatr Health Med Ther 2023; 14: 465-475DOI: 10.2147/PHMT.S431164 AbstractBackground and objective: Malnutrition is a common problem in infants and children with congenital heart defect and has an impact on the disease outcome. This study aimed to assess the short-term impact of […]

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Trans-catheter closure of an unusual type of Abernethy malformation in a child presenting with severe pulmonary hypertension

Santosh Wadile, Ashishkumar Banpurkar, Snehal KulkarniSri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centre for Child Heart Care and Training in Pediatric Cardiac Skills.India Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2023;DOI: 10.1017/S1047951123004006 AbstractAbernethy malformation is a congenital extra-hepatic porto-systemic shunt. This malformation is characterized by an abnormal connection between the portal vein or its branches and one of the systemic veins.

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Simvastatin restores pulmonary endothelial function in the setting of pulmonary over-circulation

Jason T. Boehme, Xutong Sun, Qing Lu, Jubilee Barton, Xiaomin Wu, Wenhui Gong, Gary W. Raff, Sanjeev A. Datar, Ting Wang, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Stephen M. BlackUniversity of California San Francisco. Howard Wertheim College of Medicine and Florida International University. University of Arizona Health Sciences. University of California Davis. United States Nitric OxideNitric Oxide 2023;

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Long term outcome after surgical ASD-closure at young age: Longitudinal follow-up up to 50 years after surgery

Robert M. Kauling, Chiara Pelosi, Judith A. A. E. Cuypers, Annemien E. van den Bosch, Alexander Hirsch, João G. Carvalho, Daniel J. Bowen, Isabella Kardys, Ad J. J. C. Bogers, Wim A. Helbing, Jolien W. Roos-HesselinkErasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam. Netherlands International Journal of CardiologyInt J Cardiol 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2023.131616 AbstractObjectives: To describe the clinical outcome

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Patent Ductus Arteriosus and Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia-Associated Pulmonary Hypertension: A Bayesian Meta-Analysis

Eduardo Villamor, Elkevan Westering-Kroon, Gema E. Gonzalez-Luis, František Bartoš, Steven H. Abman, Maurice J. HuizingMosaKids Children’s Hospital and Maastricht University Medical Center. Hospital Universitario Materno-Infantil de Canarias. University of Amsterdam. University of Colorado Anschutz School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora.Netherlands, Spain and United States Journal of the American Medical Association Network OpenJAMA Netw

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Pulmonary arterial hypertension in congenital heart disease

Paolo Ferrero, Kaushiga Krishnathasan, Andrew Constantine, Massimo Chessa, Konstantinos DimopoulosIRCCS-Policlinico San Donato. European Reference Network for Rare and Low Prevalence Complex Diseases of the Heart. Royal Brompton Hospital. Imperial College London. Italy and United Kingdom HeartHeart 2023; DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-322890 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryClass I. Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Congenital Cardiovascular DiseaseReview Articles Concerning Pulmonary Vascular Disease

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Management of systemic to pulmonary shunts and elevated pulmonary vascular resistance

Alexandra N. Linder, Jill Hsia, Sheila V. Krishnan, Emile A. Bacha, Sarah Crook, Erika B. Rosenzweig, Usha S. KrishnanNew York Presbyterian-Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Stony Brook University Children’s Hospital. United States European Respiratory Journal Open ResearchERJ Open Res 2023; 9: DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00271-2023 AbstractBackground: Repair of systemic to

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Pulmonary vasodilators and exercise in Fontan circulation: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Diamantis Kosmidis, Alexandra Arvanitaki, Ioannis T Farmakis, Aris Liakos, Andreas Giannopoulos, Antonios Ziakas, George GiannakoulasAristotle University of Thessaloniki. Royal Brompton Hospital. University Medical Center Mainz. Greece, United Kingdom and Germany HeartHeart 2023; DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2023-323166 AbstractObjective: In Fontan circulation, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH)-targeted therapies could improve the patients’ exercise capacity. This study aimed to investigate the effects of PAH

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Preoperative Sildenafil in Pediatric Patients Undergoing Congenital Heart Surgeries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Yusuf Ananda Fikri, Eka Prasetya Budi Mulia, Faris Wahyu NugrohoDr. R. Soetrasno Regional General Hospital.Indonesia Seminars in Cardiothoracic and Vascular AnesthesiaSemin Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2023; DOI: 10.1177/10892532231205752 AbstractBackground. Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a common complication of congenital heart disease (CHD). With early surgical intervention, outcomes have improved over the last two decades. Persistent PH, however, may still

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Pulmonary hemodynamics before and after pediatric heart transplantation

Philipp Biedermann, Vanessa Sitte-Koch, Martin Schweigger, Anke Meinold, Daniel Quandt, Oliver Kretschmar, Christian Balmer, Walter KnirschUniversity Children’s Hospital Zurich. Switzerland Clinical TransplantationClin Transplant 2023; DOI: 10.1111/ctr.15162 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) may limit the outcome of pediatric heart transplantation (pHTx). We evaluated pulmonary hemodynamics in children undergoing pHTx.Methods: Cross-sectional, single-center, observational study analyzing pulmonary hemodynamics in children undergoing pHTx.Results: Twenty-three

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