Diagnostic Testing for Pulmonary Vascular Disease. Non-invasive Testing

SCMR expert consensus statement for cardiovascular magnetic resonance of acquired and non-structural pediatric heart disease

Adam L. Dorfman, Tal Geva, Margaret M. Samyn, Gerald Greil, Rajesh Krishnamurthy, Daniel Messroghli, Pierluigi Festa, Aurelio Secinaro, Brian Soriano, Andrew Taylor, Michael D. Taylor, René M. Botnar, Wyman W. LaiUniversity of Michigan and C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.Boston Children’s Hospital. Medical College of Wisconsin. University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Deutsches Herzzentrum […]

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Repolarization Dispersion Is Associated With Diastolic Electromechanical Discoordination in Children With Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Michal Schäfer, Benjamin S. Frank, D. Dunbar Ivy, Max B. Mitchell, Kathryn K. Collins, Pei-Ni Jone, Johannes C. von AlvenslebenUniversity of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado.United States Journal of the American Heart AssociationJ Am Heart Assoc 2022; 11: DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.121.024787 AbstractBackground: Electromechanical dyssynchrony is a well described comorbidity in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH). ECG-derived measurements reflective

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Pulmonary artery acceleration time in young children is determined by heart rate and transpulmonary gradient but not by pulmonary blood flow: A simultaneous echocardiography-cardiac catheterization study

Christiana Tai, Anyir Hsieh, Anita J. Moon-Grady, Roberta L. Keller, David Teitel, Hythem M. NawaytouUniversity of California, San FranciscoUnited States EchocardiographyEchocardiography 2022; 39: 895-905DOI: 10.1111/echo.15397 AbstractIntroduction: Pulmonary artery acceleration time (PAAT) is considered useful for the non-invasive evaluation of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) and pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR). PAAT is dependent on PAP, PVR, pulmonary artery compliance,

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Kynurenine metabolites predict survival in pulmonary arterial hypertension: A role for IL-6/IL-6Rα

Zongye Cai, Siyu Tian, Theo Klein, Ly Tu, Laurie W. Geenen, Thomas Koudstaal, Annemien E. van den Bosch, Yolanda B. de Rijke, Irwin K. M. Reiss, Eric Boersma, Claude van der Ley, Martijn Van Faassen, Ido Kema, Dirk J. Duncker, Karin A. Boomars, Karin Tran‑Lundmark, Christophe Guignabert, Daphne MerkusErasmus MC University Medical Center. Zhejiang University

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Misclassification of Pulmonary Hypertension in Partial Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return

Clifford W. Chin, David P. BichellVanderbilt University and Monroe Carell Junior Children’s HospitalUnited States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2022; 114: e447-e449DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2022.02.021 AbstractPartial anomalous pulmonary venous return is a rare congenital heart defect that can escape detection until adulthood and can be misdiagnosed as pulmonary hypertension and managed with vasodilators before the anomaly is

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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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