Segmental Pulmonary Venous Disease. Without a Focus on Pulmonary Hypertension

Surgical Outcomes for Obstructive Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Return of the Non-Infracardiac Type Compared with the Infracardiac Type

Jae Yoon Na, Jinyoung Song, June Huh, I-Seok Kang, Ji-Hyuk Yang, Tae-Gook JunSamsung Medical Center and Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine.Republic of Korea Heart Surgery ForumHeart Surg Forum 2020; 23: E833-E836DOI: 10.1532/hsf.3217 AbstractBackground: Infracardiac obstructive total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR) has a poor outcome following surgical correction. We compared the surgical outcomes of obstructive TAPVR between […]

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A Rare Report of Hypoplastic Coronary Arteries and Pulmonary Veins: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Raymond Morales, John Bokoski, Saif Aljemmali, Joshua Murphy, Caroja Bharati, Ra-Id AbdullaRush University Medical Center. Rosalind Franklin University of Sciences. Advocate Children’s Hospital. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2020; 41: 1231-1237DOI: 10.1007/s00246-020-02334-x AbstractCongenital coronary artery anomalies are estimated to affect about 1% of the general population. Hypoplastic coronary artery disease is

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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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Acute treatment of critical vascular stenoses with a bioabsorbable magnesium scaffold in infants with CHDs

Peter A. Zartner, Dietmar Schranz, Nathalie Mini, Martin B. Schneider, Katja SchneiderUniversity Hospital. University Giessen and Marburg. Marienhospital.Germany Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2020; 30: 493-499DOI: 10.1017/S1047951120000384 AbstractBackground: Post-operative severe vascular stenosis and proliferating endothelial tissue lead to severe circulatory disorders and impair organ perfusion. Bioabsorbable magnesium scaffolds may help to overcome these obstructions without leaving obstructing

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Changes in Prognosis of Heterotaxy Syndrome Over Time

Puja Banka, Adi Adar, Barbara Schaetzle, Lynn A. Sleeper, Sitaram Emani, Tal GevaBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard University.United States PediatricsPediatrics 2020; 146: DOI: 10.1542/peds.2019-3345 AbstractBackground: Long-term outcomes in heterotaxy syndrome (HS) are poorly described. Some reports suggest improved survival in the recent era, whereas others do not. We sought to describe long-term outcomes and assess whether outcomes

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Left hypoplastic lung and hemoptysis-rare familial unilateral pulmonary vein atresia

Ronly Har-Even Cohn, Matthew Hicks, Atilano Lacson, Anne HicksUniversity of Alberta.Canada Clinical Case ReportsClin Case Rep 2020; 8: 1698-1703DOI: 10.1002/ccr3.2982 AbstractUnilateral pulmonary vein atresia (UPVA) is a rare congenital vascular malformation with obliteration of the pulmonary vein. We present a case series of three siblings with variable presentation of UPVA. We suggest a dominant genetic cause based on different paternity.

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Transcatheter Recanalization of Atretic Pulmonary Veins in Infants and Children

Jay D. Patel, Mansi Mandhani, Rosemary Gray, Joelle Pettus, Courtney E. McCracken, Amanda Thomas, Holly Bauser-Heaton, Dennis W. Kim, Christopher J. PetitEmory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons and NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.United States Circulation Cardiovascular InterventionsCirc Cardiovasc Interv 2022; 15: DOI: 10.1161/CIRCINTERVENTIONS.121.011351 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis is a progressive disease associated with a high rate of mortality in children. If left untreated, myofibroblastic proliferation

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Scimitar syndrome: A new multipatch technique and incidence of postoperative pulmonary vein obstruction

Robert L. Geggel, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Ryan Callahan, Eric N. Feins, Christopher W. BairdBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery TechniquesJTCVS Tech 2020; 4: 208-216DOI: 10.1016/j.xjtc.2020.07.027 AbstractObjective: A review of our center’s experience before March 2011 showed that one half of 36 patients who had a baffling or reimplantation procedure to

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Long-term outcome of percutaneous intervention for pulmonary vein stenosis after pulmonary vein isolation procedure

Patcharapong Suntharos, Sarah E. Worley, Wei Liu, Marion Siperstein, Lourdes R. PrietoNicklaus Children’s Hospital. Cleveland Clinic Foundation. United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2020; 95: 389-397DOI: 10.1002/ccd.28628 AbstractObjectives: Report long-term outcomes of percutaneous intervention in patients with pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) after pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) from a single center over 16 years.Background: Outcome reports of

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Diagnostic performance of CT angiography to detect pulmonary vein stenosis in children

Christian A. Barrera, David Saul, Jordan B. Rapp, Christopher L. Smith, Ammie M. White, David M. Biko, Hansel J. OteroThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania.United States International Journal of Cardiovascular ImagingInt J Cardiovasc Imaging 2020; 36: 141-147DOI: 10.1007/s10554-019-01693-8 AbstractTo assess the diagnostic efficiency of CT angiography (CTA) to detect pulmonary vein stenosis in

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