Surgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Case report: the ‘vanished’ left pulmonary artery

Jiahui Charmaine Chan, Monika Kantilal Kotecha, Jonathan Tze Liang Choo, Marielle V. Fortier, Sreekanthan SundararaghavanKK Women and Children’s Hospital. National University of Singapore. Duke-National University of Singapore Medical School. Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Nanyang Technological University. Singapore European Heart Journal Case ReportsEur Heart J Case Rep 2024; 8:DOI: 10.1093/ehjcr/ytae147 AbstractBackground: We report a case

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Empowering Little Fighters: Post-Cardiotomy Pediatric ECMO and the Journey to Recovery

Alok Kumar, Sangeeth Raj, Saurabh Singh, Gurpinder Ghotra, Nikhil TiwariArmed Forces Medical College and Army Institute of Cardiothoracic Sciences. Army Hospital. India Annals of Cardiac AnaesthesiaAnn Card Anaesth 2024; 27: 128-135DOI: 10.4103/aca.aca_184_23 AbstractIntroduction: Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) has long been used for cardiorespiratory support in the immediate post-paediatric cardiac surgery period with a 2-3% success as

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The Road to Heart Transplant in a Patient With Cardiomyopathy, Shone Complex, and Severe Pulmonary Hypertension

Arif Albulushi, Shabib Al-Asmi, Moosa Al-Abri, Hatem Al-FarhanUniversity of Nebraska Medical Center. Royal Hospital. Heart Hospital, Armed Forces Hospital and Sultan Qaboos University Hospital. Hamad Medical Corporation. United States, Oman and Qatar Journal of the American College of Cardiology Case ReportsJACC Case Rep 2024; 29:DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102323 AbstractOur case report details the journey of a 16-year-old male

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Mixed type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with hemi-pulmonary vein atresia

Yasuhisa Shimazaki, Susumu Nakano, Hiroshi Kato, Shigeaki Ohtake, Seiichiro Ikawa, Takuya Miura, Tetuya Sano, Jun Arisawa, Hikaru MatsudaOsaka University Medical School.Japan Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1993; 56: 1399-1401DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90694-d AbstractThis reports a successfully corrected case of an 8-day-old baby who had a rare mixed type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in which the

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Common pulmonary vein atresia: a successfully corrected case

Yasuhisa Shimazaki, T. Yagihara, T. Nakada, O. Hirose, H. SugimotoOsaka University Medical School.Japan Journal of Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Cardiovasc Surg 1987; 28: 395-397DOI: Not Available AbstractCommon pulmonary vein atresia is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly in which there is no communication between the confluence of the pulmonary veins and the heart or the major systemic venous

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Common pulmonary vein atresia: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Carlos Mas, Andrew Cochrane, Samuel Menahem, Brodie KnightRoyal Children’s Hospital. Women’s and Children’s Hospital.Australia Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2000; 21: 490-492DOI: 10.1007/s002460010119 AbstractFollowing Doppler echocardiographic evaluation, a 16 hour-old infant underwent successful surgical repair of common pulmonary vein atresia. Investigations for prolonged postoperative ventilatory assistance, including cardiac catheterization and computerized tomography, led to a clinical diagnosis of

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Isolated agenesis of the right pulmonary veins with pulmonary sequestration

Shilpa Patil, Sakshi Sachdeva, Shweta Bakhru, Bharat Dalvi, Nageswara Rao KonetiCare Hospital. Glenmark Cardiac Center. India Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2019; 12: 135-137DOI: 10.4103/apc.APC_55_18 AbstractWe report two cases of agenesis of the right pulmonary veins (PVs) associated with sequestration of the right lung with systemic to pulmonary collateral. Both the children were referred for

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Common pulmonary vein atresia: Importance of immediate recognition and surgical intervention

Siavosh Khonsari, Peter W. Saunders, Martin H. Lees, Albert StarrOregon Health Sciences University.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1982; 83: 443-448DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5223(19)37282-4 AbstractCommon pulmonary vein atresia is a rare congenital anomaly; all four pulmonary veins drain into a common dilated chamber with no direct connections to the heart or systemic

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Common pulmonary vein atresia. Premortem diagnosis in two infants

Richard E. Hawker, John M. Celermajer, Don C. Gengos, Timothy B. Cartmill, J. Denby BowdlerRoyal Alexandra Hospital for Children.Australia CirculationCirculation 1972; 46: 368-374DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.46.2.368 Abstract (Summary)Two cases of common pulmonary vein atresia (CPVA) are presented. In one, the diagnosis was suspected on clinical grounds, and in both it was confirmed by cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography. Surgical

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An Extremely Rare Variant of Pulmonary Venous Atresia

Yuki Nakamura, Kagami Miyaji, Yurie Miyata, Atsushi KitagawaKitasato University Hospital.Japan Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnnThorac Surg 2016; 101: 2382-2384DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.08.085 AbstractWe describe an unusual case of a newborn with a rare variant of atresia of the common pulmonary vein that was mistaken for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, cardiac type. The survival of patients with atresia of

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