Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease or Adult Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Supravalvular aortic stenosis – Novel pathogenic ELN variant in siblings with a wide spectrum of clinical cardiovascular features and a long follow-up from infancy to adulthood

Sini Keskinen, Jussi Niemelä, Hannele Koillinen, Talvikki Boldt, Anita ArolaTurku University Hospital and University of Turku. New Children’s HospitalFinland Cardiovascular Revascularization MedicineCardiovasc Revasc Med 2025; DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2025.04.027 AbstractBackground: Supravalvular aortic stenosis (SVAS) is an autosomal dominantly inherited congenital cardiovascular disease caused by disruption of elastin gene (ELN), encoding elastin, an essential component of elastic arteries. It usually […]

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Four decades of heart-lung transplantation: Milestones and outcomes in advanced cardiorespiratory failure

L. Lily Rosenthal, Anna Maria Mühlbauer, Carola Grinninger, Nikolaus A. Haas, Heinrich Netz, Robert Dalla Pozza, Jürgen Hörer, Sebastian Michel, R. Schramm, D. Graetz, Christian HaglLMU University Hospital Munich. Clinic Bogen. Heart and Diabetes Centre North Rhine-Westphalia. Clinic Gauting.Germany European Society of Cardiology Heart FailureESC Heart Fail 2025; DOI: 10.1002/ehf2.15411 AbstractAims: Heart-lung transplantation (HLTx) remains a life-saving intervention

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Clinical Care for Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With Williams-Beuren Syndrome

R. Thomas Collins II, Verena Gravenhorst, Gilles Faury, Joanna Kwiatkowska, Christian E. H. Schmelzer, Heike Schneider, Anna Waldoch, Rainer PankauUniversity of Kentucky College of Medicine. University Medical Center and Georg-August-University Göttingen. Université Grenoble. Medical University of Gdańsk. Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems. University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein and Christian-Albrechts-University.United States, Germany, France and

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Case Report: Non-reactive vasoreactivity testing in a patient with patent ductus arteriosus with pulmonary hypertension: is there still a way to turn things around?

Sisca Natalia Siagian, Elsa Hedia Panjaitan, Pandu Prasetyo NugrohoUniversitas Indonesia.Indonesia Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2025; 12: DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2025.1569963 AbstractBackground: Recent guidelines recommend patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) closure in adults based on hemodynamic criteria, such as pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) and flow ratio (Qp:Qs). However, additional parameters like acute vasoreactivity testing (AVT) and closure testing, though

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Targeted Proteomic Analysis of Sickle Cell Disease Patients With Elevated Tricuspid Regurgitation Velocity

Varshini Babu, Jane A. Little, Claudia R. Morris, Roberto Machado, Simon Gibbs, Gregory A. Kato, Victor R. Gordeuk, MArk T. Gladwin, Yingze Zhang, Seyed Mehdi NouraieUniversity of Pittsburgh. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Indiana University. Imperial College London. CSL Behring. University of Illinois

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Cardiovascular disease in Sickle cell: mechanisms, diagnostics and therapeutic advances

Elio Haroun, Ankit Agrawal, Aro Daniela Arockiam, Joseph El Dahdah, Joseph Kassab, Michael Nakhla, Michel Chedid El Helou, Harsha Sanaka, Ziad Zalaquett, Simrat Kaur, Tiffany Dong, Rabi Hanna, Brian Griffin, Tom Kai Ming WangCleveland Clinic. United States HeartHeart 2025; DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2025-325837 AbstractCardiovascular complications are increasingly recognised as a major driver of morbidity and early mortality in patients

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Pharmacological Treatment Practices for Patients with Congenital Heart Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension in Japan: Insights from the Japanese Association of Congenital Heart Disease Registry (JACPHR)

Taku Ishii, Keiko Uchida, Susumu Hosokawa, Reina Ishizaki, Naofumi F. Sumitomo, Yoshiyuki Furutani, Hidekazu Ishida, Shinichi Takatsuki, Kei Inai, Kunihiko Takahashi, Shigetoyo Kogaki, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Yuichi Tamura, Hiroyuki Yamagishi, Shozaburo Doi, Japanese Association of Congenital Heart Disease Registry (JACHDR) membersInstitute of Science Tokyo. Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo Medical University. Japanese Red Cross Mushashino

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Transcatheter Versus Surgical Correction of Superior Sinus Venosus Defects: Comparison of the Outcomes and Late Complications

Puthiyedath Thejaswi, Kothandam Sivakumar, Farheen Qureshi, Pramod Sagar. Sreeja Pavithran, Ravi AgarwalMadras Medical Mission.India Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2025; DOI: 10.1007/s00246-025-03975-6 AbstractTranscatheter correction (TC) of sinus venosus defects (SVD) is an emerging alternative to surgical correction (SC). Superior vena caval (SVC) or right upper pulmonary vein (RUPV) stenosis and sick sinus syndrome are complications of SC. This

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Systemic Sclerosis: A Key Model of Endothelial Dysfunction

Vincenzo Zaccone, Lorenzo Falsetti, Silvia Contegiacomo, Serena Cataldi, Devis Benfaremo, Gianluca MoronciniMarche Polytechnic University.Italy BiomedicinesBiomedicines 2025; 13: DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines13071771 AbstractSystemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogeneous disease characterized by vascular alterations, immune dysregulation, and fibrosis. Solid evidence supports the hypothesis that endothelial dysfunction is the key player in SSc vascular injury and a critical factor concurring to

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Impact of Pulmonary Hypertension and Patent Ductus Arteriosus in Preterm Infants with Presumed Pulmonary Hypoplasia

Sol Kim, Yumi Seo, Moon-Yeon Oh, Min Soo Kim, Sook Kyung YumSeoul St. Mary’s Hospital and Catholic University of Korea.Republic of Korea BiomedicinesBiomedicines 2025; 13: DOI: 10.3390/biomedicines13071725 AbstractObjectives: Pulmonary hypertension and hemodynamically significant PDA (hsPDA) involve seemingly opposite physiological features-decreased pulmonary blood flow and pulmonary overcirculation, respectively-but the literature demonstrates variable respiratory consequences in association with

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