Procedural Risk and Care for Individuals with Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Associated radiation exposure from medical imaging and excess lifetime risk of developing cancer in pediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension

Malini Mahendra, Philip Chu, Elena K. Amin, Hythem Nawaytou, James R. Duncan, Jeffrey R. Fineman, Rebecca Smith-BindmanCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and University of California at San Francisco. Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology Washington University School of Medicine. United States Pulmonary CirculationPulm Circ 2023; 13DOI: 10.1002/pul2.12282 AbstractPediatric patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) receive imaging studies that use ionizing […]

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Outcomes and characteristics of cardiac arrest in children with pulmonary hypertension: A secondary analysis of the ICU-RESUS clinical trial

Ryan W. Morgan, Ron W. Reeder, Tageldin Ahmed, Michael J. Bell, John T. Berger, Robert Bishop, Matthew Bochkoris, Candice Burns, Joseph A. Carcillo, Todd C. Carpenter, J. Michael Dean, J. Wesley Diddle. Myke Federman, Richard Fernandez, Erika L. Fink, Deborah Franzon, Aisha H. Frazier, Stuart H. Friess, Kathryn Graham, Mark Hall, David A. Hehir, Adam

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Outcomes of pregnancy in women with different types of pulmonary hypertension

Yang Liu, Haitao Li, Yanna Li, Jun Zhang, Hong Gu, Jiangang Wang, Qiang WangBeijing Anzhen Hospital Affiliated to Capital Medical University. Beijing Anzhen Hospital. China BioMed Central Cardiovascular DisordersBMC Cardiovasc Disord 2023; 23:DOI: 10.1186/s12872-023-03423-4 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is considered to increase maternal and fetal risk, and we attempt to explore pregnancy outcomes in women with different

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Systemic Embolic Complications of Pulmonary Vein Angioplasty in Children

Jesse J. Esch, Diego Porras, Lisa Bergersen, Kathy J. Jenkins, Audrey C. MarshallBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2015; 36: 1357-1362DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1165-x AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) carries significant morbidity and mortality for affected children, and its management often requires multiple angioplasty procedures. PVS angioplasty can be complicated by systemic embolic events

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Predictive Factors for Postoperative Intensive Care Unit Admission and Mechanical Ventilation After Cardiac Catheterization for Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Wiriya Maisat, Koichi YukiBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular AnesthesiaJ Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth 2022; 36: 2500-2508DOI: 10.1053/j.jvca.2022.02.024 AbstractObjective: To investigate the predictive factors for postoperative intensive care unit (ICU) admission and mechanical ventilation (MV) after cardiac catheterization for pediatric pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS).Design: A retrospective observational study.Setting: At a single tertiary academic

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Pregnancy in Eisenmenger syndrome: a case series from a tertiary care hospital of Northern India

Bharti Sharma, Pooja Sikka, Seema Chopra, Ramandeep Bansal, Vanita Suri, Neelam Aggarwal, Subhas C. Saha, Rajesh Vijayvergiya, Ishwar Bhukal, Praveen KumarPost Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research. India Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2023; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951122004152 AbstractBackground: Despite advances in medical care, we still come across pregnancy in Eisenmenger syndrome. Eisenmenger syndrome represents the severe end

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Successful Eisenmenger syndrome-targeted drug therapy in pregnant women: a case series and literature review

W. Chen, J. Chen, M. Peng, J. Luo, Y. Chen, H. Qiu, J. LiThe Second Xiangya Hospital of Central South University. China British Journal of Obstetrics and GynaecologyBJOG 2023; 130: 923-931DOI: 10.1111/1471-0528.17427 AbstractObjective: To clarify the real-world outcomes in pregnant women with Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) in the new therapeutic era and provide a literature review.Design: Retrospective case and

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Surgery Before Pregnancy in Women with Congenital Heart Disease: A Retrospective Study

Yang Liu, Yanna Li, Jun Zhang, Jiachen Li, Yichen Zhao, Kemin Liu, Xiangming Fan, Jianging WangBeijing Anzhen Hospital affiliated to Capital Medical University. China Heart Surgery ForumHeart Surg Forum 2023; 26: E027-E037DOI: 10.1532/hsf.4751 AbstractBackground: This study aimed to investigate if surgery before pregnancy would result in better maternal and fetal outcomes in patients with congenital heart disease.Methods: A

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Flexible bronchoscopy in pediatric patients with Down syndrome: A case-control study of the indications, findings, and complications

Noga Arwas, Aviv Goldbart, Micha Aviram, Yotam Dizitzer, Itay Pansky, Inbal Golan-TriptoSoroka University Medical Center. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.Israel Pediatric PulmonologyPediatr Pulmonol 2023; 58: 1658-1664DOI: 10.1002/ppul.26371 AbstractBackground: Children with Down syndrome (DS) often undergo flexible bronchoscopies (FB) due to common respiratory symptoms.Objective: To examine the indications, findings, and complications of FB in pediatric DS patients.Methods: A retrospective case-control

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Neonatal outcomes in pregnant women with pulmonary arterial hypertension associated with heart disease

Jianglin Ma, Fang Luo, Lingling YanThe First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine, Zhejiang University.China Pediatrics and NeonatologyPediatr Neonatol 2023; DOI: 10.1016/j.pedneo.2022.11.008 AbstractBackground: As an increasing number of women with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) choose to become pregnant, outcomes in newborns have become a priority. The main purpose of this study was to compare the neonatal outcomes in

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