Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease or Adult Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Pulmonary Hypertension in Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Pei-Ni Jone, D. Dunbar Ivy, Amanda Hauck, Tara Karamlou, Uyen Truong, Ryan D. Coleman, Juan Pablo Sandoval, María Jesús del Cerro Marín, Pirooz Eghtesady, Kathryn Tillman, Usha S. KrishnanLurie Children’s Hospitaland Northwestern University. University of Colorado. Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Children’s National Hospital. Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Ignacio Chavez National Institute of […]

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Treatment approach to unilateral branch pulmonary artery stenosis

Gurumurthy Hiremath, Athar M. Qureshi, Jeffery Meadows, Varun AggarwalUniversity of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and the University of California, San Francisco.United States Trends in Cardiovascular MedicineTrends Cardiovasc Med 2021; 31: 179-184DOI: 10.1016/j.tcm.2020.02.001 AbstractUnilateral proximal pulmonary artery stenosis is often seen in the setting of

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Scimitar Syndrome in Children and Adults: Natural History, Outcomes, and Risk Analysis

Hanjay Wang, David Kalfa, Marlon S. Rosenbaum, Jonathan N. Ginns, Matthew J. Lewis, Julie S. Glickstein, Emile A. Bacha, Paul J. ChaiColumbia University Medical Center.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2018; 105: 592-598DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2017.06.061 AbstractBackground: Scimitar syndrome involves congenital anomalous pulmonary venous return to the inferior vena cava. Optimal management remains controversial. We describe the

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Computed Tomography Angiography and Magnetic Resonance Angiography of Congenital Anomalies of Pulmonary Veins

Ahmed Abdel Razek Abdel Khalek, Hala Al-Marsafawy, Maha Elmansy, Mahmoud Abd El-Latif, Donia SobhPediatric Hospital, Mansoura Faculty of Medicine.Egypt Journal of Computer Assisted TomographyJ Comput Assist Tomogr 2019; 43: 399-405DOI: 10.1097/RCT.0000000000000857 AbstractWe aimed to review computed tomography and magnetic resonance angiography of congenital anomalies of pulmonary veins. Total anomalous pulmonary venous return shows all pulmonary veins

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Repair of Superior Sinus Venosus Atrial Septal Defect Using a Modified Two-Patch Technique

Chawki Elzein, Mubeena Abdulkarim, Umair Abbas, Luca Vricella, Michel IlbawiAdvocate Children’s Hospital.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2020; 109: 583-587DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2019.07.023 AbstractBackground: Surgical repair of superior sinus venosus atrial septal defect associated with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection is usually performed with either a two-patch technique or the Warden procedure. However, both techniques can lead

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Treatment of Congenital and Acquired Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Patcharapong Suntharos, Lourdes R. PrietoNicklaus Children’s Hospital.United States Current Cardiology ReportsCurr Cardiol Rep 2020; 22: DOI: 10.1007/s11886-020-01395-x AbstractPurpose of review: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare entity that until the last 2 decades was seen primarily in infants and children. Percutaneous and surgical interventions have limited success due to relentless restenosis, and mortality remains high. In

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Intravascular Ultrasound for Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Interventions in Congenital Heart Disease

Samantha A. Kops, Danielle Strah, Kwan S. Lee, Michael D. SeckelerUniversity of Arizona.United States Journal of Invasive CardiologyJ Invasive Cardiol 2021; 33: E259-E262DOI: Not Available AbstractObjective: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is aggressive, with high morbidity and mortality. Surgical and catheter interventions yield modest success, at best. Refinements in catheter interventions could potentially improve outcomes in this

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Multimodality Imaging of Right Heart Function: JACC Scientific Statement

Rebecca T. Hahn, Stamatios Lerakis, Victoria Delgado, Karima Addetia, Daniel Burkhoff, Denisa Muraru, Sean Pinney, Mark K. FriedbergColumbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine. Hospital University Germans Trias i Pujol Hospital. University of Chicago. University of Milano-Bicocca. Hospital for Sick Children.United States, Spain, Italy and Canada Journal of the

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Tricuspid Annular Plane Systolic Excursion (TAPSE) correlates with mean pulmonary artery pressure especially 10 years after pediatric heart transplantation

Morgana Michalski, Nikolaus Haas, Robert Dalla Pozza, Sebastian Michel, Marcus Fischer, Anja Lehner, Laura Rosenthal, Andre Jakob, Madaleine Orban, Sarah UlrichLudwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.Germany Clinical TransplantationClinic Transplant 2023; 37: DOI: 10.1111/ctr.14710 AbstractTricuspid annular plane systolic excursion (TAPSE) is important in the noninvasive echocardiographic assessment of right heart function. This retrospective observational study shows correlations of TAPSE with

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Pearls & Oy-sters: Late-Onset Cobalamin C Deficiency Presenting With Subacute Combined Degeneration

Christopher Goyne, Leena KansalUniversity of California San Diego.United States NeurologyNeurology 2023; 100: 486-489DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000201695 AbstractCobalamin C (CblC) deficiency is a rare inborn error in cobalamin (vitamin B12) metabolism which results in impaired intracellular processing of dietary vitamin B12. This leads to a wide range of clinical manifestations including cognitive impairment, psychiatric symptoms, myelopathy, thrombotic events, glomerulonephritis,

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