Diagnostic Testing for Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Invasive Testing

Multimodal Assessment and Intramodal Comparison of Imaging Techniques for Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis with Pulmonary Hypertension

Victor Kieu, Stephanie S. Handler, Michael Mitchell, Amy Y. Pan, Liyun Zhang, Edward KirkpatrickMedical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. Nemours Children’s Health. United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2024; DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03531-8 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare, serious, and progressive disease in the pediatric population. Evaluation is complex and involves multimodality imaging. Diagnosis is important […]

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Objective Quantification of Bilateral Bubble Contrast Echocardiography Correlates with Systemic Oxygenation in Patients with Single Ventricle Circulation

Ashley Phimister, Chana Bushee, Monica Merbach, Sai Alekha Challa, Amy Y. Pan, Andrew D. SpearmanMedical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin.United States Journal of Cardiovascular Development and DiseaseJ Cardiovasc Dev Dis 2024; 11: DOI: 10.3390/jcdd11030084 AbstractBubble contrast echocardiography is commonly used to diagnose pulmonary arteriovenous malformations (PAVMs) in single ventricle congenital heart disease (CHD), yet previous

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Angiographic tool to detect pulmonary arteriovenous malformations in single ventricle physiology

Stephen B. Spurgin, Yousef M. Arar, Thomas M. Zellers, Jijia Wang, Nicolas L. Madsen, Surendranath R. Veeram Reddy, Ondine Cleaver, Abhay A. DivekarUniversity of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and Children’s Medical Center.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2024; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124000933 AbstractObjective: Individuals with single ventricle physiology who are palliated with superior cavopulmonary anastomosis (Glenn surgery) may

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Management of Pulmonary Vascular Disease Associated with Congenital Left to Right Shunts: A Single Center Experience

Hythem Nawaytou, Ramya Lakkaraju, Leah Stevens, Vadiyala Mohan Reddy, Naveen Swami, Roberta L. Keller, David F. Teitel, Jeffrey R. FinemanUniversity of California,San Francisco.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2024; DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2024.05.007 AbstractObjective: To describe the course and outcomes of children under 18 with left-to-right (LR) shunts and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) undergoing

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The Estimated Fick Method Systematically Over-Estimates Cardiac Index Compared to Thermodilution in Children

Andrew A. Lawson, Paul Tannous, Christina Laternser, Karl MigallyAnn & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2024; DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03491-z AbstractCardiac index (CI) may be derived from the Fick method, using measured or estimated oxygen consumption (VO2), or from thermodilution. In children, LaFarge VO2 estimates

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A Bioinformatic Algorithm based on Pulmonary Endoarterial Biopsy for Targeted Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Therapy

Abraham Rothman, David Mann, Jose A. Nunez, Reinhardt Tarmidi, Humberto Restrepo, Valeri Sarukhanov, Roy Williams, William N. EvansChildren’s Heart Center Nevada. Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Vascular Biosciences. University of California, Santa Barbara. University of California, San Diego.United States Open Respiratory Medicine JournalOpen Respir Med J 2023; DOI: 10.2174/18743064-v17-230927-2023-9 AbstractBackground: Optimal pharmacological therapy for pulmonary

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A single institution anesthetic experience with catheterization of pediatric pulmonary hypertension patients

Emily Morell, Elizabeth Colglazier, Jasmine Becerra, Leah Stevens, Martina A. Steurer, Anshuman Sharma, Hung Nguyen, Irfan S. Kathiriya, Stephen Weston, David Teitel, Roberta Keller, Elena K. Amin, Hythem Nawaytou, Jeffrey R. FinemanUCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and University of California San Francisco.United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2024; 14:DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12360 AbstractCardiac catheterization remains the gold standard for the

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Non-invasive estimation of pulmonary hypertension and clinical deterioration risk in pediatric congenital heart disease: Development and validation of predictive tools

Ting Wang, Dansha Zhou, Yuqin Chen, Suhua Kuang, Yue Xing, Qijian Yi, Zhengxia Pan, Weibin Xu, Jiao Rao, Yunqi Liu, Guoliang Lu, Ziying Lin, Xiang Li, Yi Xie, Yulong Wu, Peng An, Xiaoxiao Deng, Jiayue He, Jiayi Xie, Chenxi Li, Gang Geng, Daiyin Tian, Enmei Liu, Jingsi Huang, Zhou Fu, Jian WangChildren’s Hospital of Chongqing

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The Paradox of Pulmonary Vascular Resistance: Restoration of Pulmonary Capillary Recruitment as a Sine Qua Non for True Therapeutic Success in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

David Langleben, Stylianos E. Orfanos, Benjamin D. Fox, Nathan Messas, Michele Giovinazzo, John D. CatravasJewish General Hospital and McGill University. Evangelismos Hospital and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens Medical School. Yitzchak Shamir Hospital and Tel Aviv University. Old Dominion University.Canada, Greece, Israel and United States Journal of Clinical MedicineJ Clin Med 2022; 11:DOI: 10.3390/jcm11154568 AbstractExercise-induced

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Invasive haemodynamics predict outcomes in paediatric pulmonary artery hypertension

Rupesh Kumar Natarajan, Nathan Rodgers, Shanti Narasimhan, Matthew Ambrose, Abraham Rothman, Michael Shyne, Michael Evans, Varun AggarwalUniversity of Minnesota. University of Nevada, Las Vegas School of Medicine.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2024;DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124000647 AbstractBackground: Invasive haemodynamics are often performed for initiating and guiding pulmonary artery hypertension therapy. Little is known about the predictive value of

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