Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Late pulmonary venous obstruction after surgical repair of infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous return

Daniel A. Kveselis, Leon Chameides, Daniel J. Diana, Lee Ellison, Thomas RowlandHartford Hospital.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 1988; 9: 175-177DOI: 10.1007/BF02080561 AbstractTwelve years after an apparently successful surgical correction of infradiaphragmatic (obstructed) total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, a 12-year-old boy developed evidence of pulmonary artery hypertension secondary to pulmonary venous obstruction due to an apparent lack […]

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Surgical risk factors in total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Christopher R. Lincoln, Michael L. Rigby, Corrado Mercanti, Mohammad Al-Fagih, Michael C. Joseph, Graham A. Miller, Elliott A. ShinebourneBrompton HospitalUnited Kingdom American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1988; 61: 608-611DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(88)90774-6 AbstractEighty-three patients underwent surgical correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) between 1973 and 1986. There were 46 boys and 37 girls. Median age

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Complete absence of pulmonary veins

M. A. Ralston, D. W. TeskeChildren’s Hospital, Columbus.United States Clinical CardiologyClin Cardiol 1988; 11: 272-275DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960110415 AbstractVarious types of pulmonary venous return abnormalities have been described in the literature. This report presents a case in which a 4-h-old neonate presented with cyanotic heart disease and respiratory distress. This neonate was subsequently shown to have complete absence

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Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Seventeen-year surgical experience

R. K. Lamb, S. A. Qureshi, J. L. Wilkinson, R. Arnold, C. R. West, D. I. HamiltonRoyal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.United Kingdom Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1988; 96: 368-375DOI: Not Available AbstractBetween 1968 and 1985, 80 children underwent correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. There were 47 boys and 33

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Interventional cardiac catheterization procedures in pediatric cardiac transplant patients: transplant surgery is not the end of the road

Gira S. Morchi, Biagio Pietra, Mark M. Boucek, Kak-Chen ChanThe Children’s Hospital and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.United States Cathetrization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 72: 831-836.DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21725 AbstractObjectives: The objectives of this study are to report the spectrum of cardiac lesions in pediatric patients post-orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), the characteristics of patients who develop

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Pulmonary venous obstruction from left atrial thrombus in hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Angela Romano, Paul M. Weinberg, Paul K. Woolf, Victoria L. VetterChildren’s Hospital of Philadelphia.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 1989; 10: 105-107DOI: 10.1007/BF02309923 AbstractThe formation of intracardic thrombi in infants with cogenital heart disease is quite uncommon. We describe an infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome in whom a left atrial thrombus developed over the course of

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Surgical outcomes of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair: a 22-year experience

Massimo A. Padalino, Giacomo Cavalli, Marco De Franceschi, Daniela Mancuso, Nocola Maschietto, Vladimiro Vida, Ornella Milanesi, Giovanni StellinUniversity of Padova Medical School. Italy Journal of Cardiac SurgeryJ Card Surg 2014; 29: 678-685DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12399 AbstractBackground: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a rare congenital heart disease (CHD), whose surgical repair is associated with high mortality and reoperation

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A Neonate With Cytokine Storm Managed With Steroids, Therapeutic Plasma Exchange, and Tocilizumab

Amy LiKamWa, Kaitlin Kobaitri, Balagangadhar R. TotapallyHerbert Wertheim College of Medicine. Nicklaus Children’s Hospital.United States CureusCureus 2023; 15DOI: 10.7759/cureus.45138 AbstractNeonatal cytokine storms, though rare, can induce hyperinflammation due to elevated interleukin-6 (IL-6), triggering multiorgan failure. We present the case of a term male neonate necessitating extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) post-birth for persistent pulmonary hypertension due to

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Pulmonary venous atrial obstruction after the Senning procedure: relief by catheter balloon dilatation

John D. Coulson, Rufus B. Jennings Jr., David H. JohnsonEastern Virginia Medical School and Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.United States British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1990; 64: 160-162DOI: 10.1136/hrt.64.2.160 AbstractPulmonary venous atrial stenosis developed after a modified Senning procedure in an infant with transposition of the great arteries. The pulmonary venous atrium was surgically revised,

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Isolated pulmonary vein atresia

S. Cullen, P. F. Deasy, E. Tempany, D.F. DuffOur Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children.Ireland British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1990; 63: 350-354DOI: 10.1136/hrt.63.6.350 AbstractTwo patients with isolated atresia of the pulmonary veins are described. One patient presented with haemoptysis and the other with recurrent unilateral chest infections. The diagnosis was confirmed in both instances by cardiac

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