Diagnostic Testing for Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Non-invasive Testing

Proteomics discovery of pulmonary hypertension biomarkers: Insulin-like growth factor binding proteins are associated with disease severity

Melanie K. Nies, Jun Yang, Megan Griffiths, Rachel Damico, Jie Zhu, Dhananjay Vaydia, Zongming Fu, Stephanie Brandal, Eric D. Austin, Dunbar D. Ivy, Paul M. Hassoun, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Allen D. EverettJohns Hopkins University. Columbia University New York. Vanderbilt University. Children’s Hospital Colorado. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2022; 12:DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12039 AbstractPulmonary arterial […]

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Echocardiographic Assessment of Pulmonary Hypertension in Neonates with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Using Pulmonary Artery Flow Characteristics

Florian Kipfmueller, Lukas Schroeder, Ulrich Gembruch, Suemeyra Akkas, Flaminia Pugnaloni, Bartolomeo Bo, Lotte Lemloh, Annegret Geipel, Christoph Berg, Andreas Heydweiller, Andreas MuellerUniversity of Bonn. Ospidale Bambinu Gesu. University Hospital Cologne.Germany and Italy Journal of Clinical MedicineJ Clin Med 2022; 11: DOI: 10.3390/jcm11113038 AbstractBackground: Assessment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) is essential in neonates with congenital diaphragmatic hernia

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Normal Echocardiographic Reference Values of the Right Ventricular to Left Ventricular Endsystolic Diameter Ratio and the Left Ventricular Endsystolic Eccentricity Index in Healthy Children and in Children With Pulmonary Hypertension

Sabrina Schweintzger, Stefan Kurath-Koller, Ante Burmas, Gernot Grangl, Andrea Fandl, Nathalie Noessler, Alexander Avian, Andreas Gamillscheg, Philippe Chouvarine, Georg Hansmann, Martin KoesnbergerMedical University Graz. Hannover Medical School. European Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Network. Austria and Germany Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2022; DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.950765 AbstractBackground: An accurate assessment of the right and left ventricle and their

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Distinguishing exercise intolerance in early-stage pulmonary hypertension with invasive exercise hemodynamics: Rest VE /VCO2 and ETCO2 identify pulmonary vascular disease

Farhan Raza, Naga Dharmavaram MD, Timothy Hess, Ravi Dhingra, James Runo, Amy Chybowski, Callyn Kozitza, Supria Batra, Evelyn M. Horn, Naomi Chesler, Marlowe EldridgeUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison. Weill Cornell Medicine. University of California-Irvine.United States Clinical CardiologyClin Cardiol 2022; 45: 742-751DOI: 10.1002/clc.23831 AbstractBackground: Among subjects with exercise intolerance and suspected early-stage pulmonary hypertension (PH), early identification of pulmonary vascular

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Non-Invasive Cardiac Output Determination Using Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Thermodilution in Pulmonary Hypertension

Lindsey A. Crowe, Léon Genecand, Anne-Lise Hachulla, Stéphane Noble, Maurice Beghetti, Jean-Paul Vallée, Frédéric LadorUniversity of Geneva and Geneva University Hospitals. Centre Universitaire Romand de Cardiologie et Chirurgie Cardiaque Pédiatrique and University of Geneva and Lausanne.Switzerland Journal of Clinical MedicineJ Clin Med 2022; 11: DOI: 10.3390/jcm11102717 AbstractMagnetic resonance imaging (MRI) can be used to measure cardiac

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Correlation Between Right Ventricular Echocardiography Measurements and Functional Capacity in Patients With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Joyce L. Woo, Michael P. DiLorenzo, Eliana Rosenzweig, Nikhil Pasumarti, Gerson Valencia Villeda, Erika Berman-Rosenzweig, Usha KrishnanAnn and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Columbia University Medical Center. Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children.United States Texas Heart Institute JournalTex Heart Inst J 2022; 49: DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-21-7719 AbstractBackground: Accelerometry is an

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Pregnancy and pulmonary arterial hypertension-improving surveillance and outcomes with multidisciplinary care and N terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide trends

Cini Sudhakara Prasad, Shine Kumar, Sudha Sumathy, Radhamony Kunjukutty, Nitu Puthenveettil, Amitabh Chanchal Sen, Jeya Bawani Sivabalakrishnan, Rama Krishna KumarAmrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University. Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. India Journal of Maternal-Fetal and Neonatal MedicineJ Matern Fetal Neonat Med 2022; 35: 3533-3539DOI: 10.1080/14767058.2020.1828333 AbstractObjective: To describe maternal and fetal outcomes and N

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PATET ratio by Doppler echocardiography: noninvasive detection of pediatric pulmonary arterial hypertension

Jennifer K. Trittmann, Hanadi Almazroue, Leif D. Nelin, Terri A. Shaffer, Charanda R. Celestine, Henry W. Green, Raphael A. MalbrueOhio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.United States Pediatric ResearchPediatr Res 2022; 92: 631-636DOI: 10.1038/s41390-021-01840-9 AbstractPulmonary artery acceleration time (PAT) and PAT: ejection time (PATET) ratio are echocardiographic measurements of pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). These noninvasive quantitative

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Innovations in Pediatric Therapeutics Development: Principles for the Use of Bridging Biomarkers in Pediatric Extrapolation

Thomas R. Fleming, Christine E. Garnett, Laurie S. Conklin, Solange Corriol‑Rohou, Sudharshan Hariharan, Daphne Hsu, Guenther Mueller‑Velten, Yeruk Mulugeta, Ronald Portman, Mark D. Rothmann, Norman L. Stockbridge, Simon Wandel, Jialu Zhang, Lynne YaoUniversity of Washington. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Janssen Research and Development. AstraZeneca. Children’s Hospital at Montefiore and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Novartis Pharma AG and Novartis Pharmaceuticals.United States Therapeutic Innovation and Regulatory ScienceTher Innov Regul Sci 2023; 57: 109-120DOI: 10.1007/s43441-022-00445-6 AbstractEven with recent substantive improvements in health care in pediatric populations, considerable need remains

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Increased myocardial oxygen consumption rates are associated with maladaptive right ventricular remodeling and decreased event-free survival in heart failure patients

Ali Ahmadi, Jennifer M. Renaud, Steven Promislow, Ian G. Burwash, Girish Dwivedi, Ran Klein, Jason G. E. Zelt, Robert A. deKamp, Rob S. Beanlands, Lisa M. MielniczukUniversity of Ottawa.Canada Journal of Nuclear CardiologyJ Nucl Cardiol 2021; 28: 2784-2795DOI: 10.1007/s12350-020-02144-x AbstractBackground: Reduced left ventricular (LV) function is associated with increased myocardial oxygen consumption rate (MVO2) and altered sympathetic

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