Surgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Fusion imaging for guidance of pulmonary arteriovenous malformation embolisation with minimal radiation and contrast exposure

Catalina Vargas-Acevedo, Ernesto Mejia, Jenny E. Zablah, Gareth J. MorganUniversity of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2024; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124000349 AbstractHereditary haemorrhagic telangiectasia is an inherited disorder characterised by vascular dysplasia that leads to the development of arteriovenous malformations. Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations occur in approximately 30% of patients with haemorrhagic telangiectasia. […]

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Surgical management of congenital and acquired pulmonary vein stenosis

Thomas L. Spray, Nancy D. BridgesThe Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.United States Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Pediatric Cardiac Surgery AnnualSemin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Ann 1999; 2: 177-188DOI: 10.1016/s1092-9126(99)70015-3 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis describes a variety of entities with a variable clinical course. The basic pathologic process appears to be fibrous intimal thickening, which

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Infradiaphragmatic anomalous pulmonary venous return. Surgical correction in a newborn infant

Beat Friedli, Andre Davignon, Paul StanleyUniversity of Montreal and Sainte Justine HospitalCanada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1971; 62: 301-306DOI: Not Available AbstractAbstract Not Available CategorySegmental Pulmonary Venous Disease. Without a Focus on Pulmonary HypertensionSurgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular Disease Age Focus: Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Fresh or Filed

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Intentional longitudinal and side-cell stent fractures: Intermediate term follow up

Hitesh Agrawal, Athar M. Qureshi, Henri JustinoTexas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2018; 91: 1110-1118DOI: 10.1002/ccd.27469 AbstractBackground: Use of small diameter stents in young children and jailing of side branches pose significant challenges to future re-interventions. We sought to assess the capacity to induce longitudinal fractures in undersized

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Assessment of pulmonary veins after atrio-pericardial anastomosis by cardiovascular magnetic resonance

Steven C. Greenway, Shi-Joon Yoo, Giedrius Baliulis, Christopher Caldarone, John Coles, Lars Grosse-WortmannHospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.CanadaJournal of Cardiovascular MagneticResonanceJ Cardiovasc Magn Reson 2011; 13:DOI: 10.1186/1532-429X-13-72 AbstractBackground: The atrio-pericardial anastomosis (APA) uses a pericardial pouch to create a large communication between the left atrium and the pulmonary venous contributaries in order to avoid direct

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Novel use of the double kissing crush technique to stent complex pulmonary artery stenosis in a child with Alagille syndrome

Danielle D. Strah, Riley D. Hellinger, Kwan S. Lee, Michael D. SeckelerUniversity of Arizona. Rady Children’s Hospital.United States Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2023; 6: 290-292DOI: 10.4103/apc.apc_60_23 AbstractCoronary bifurcation lesions and treatment with two-stent techniques have been developed, including the double kissing (DK) crush technique. The use of this technique in children or noncoronary vessels,

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Successful hybrid management of hypertensive patent ductus arteriosus with unilateral absence of the right pulmonary artery – A case report

Jayitri Mazumder, Debasree Gangopadhyay, Mahua Roy, Anoop Singh, Somrita Laha, Joyeeta DuttaRabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences.India Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2023; 16: 293-296DOI: 10.4103/apc.apc_54_23 AbstractUnilateral absence of pulmonary artery (UAPA) can be either isolated or associated with other congenital cardiac defects. It is a rare congenital lesion with a diverse clinical presentation.

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Pulmonary vein stenosis: Anatomic considerations, surgical management, and outcomes

Eric N. Feins, Christina Ireland, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Mariana Chávez, Ryan Callahan, Kathy J. Jenkins, Christopher W. BairdBoston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2022; 163: 2198-2207DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2021.10.022 AbstractObjective: The study objective was to evaluate outcomes of pulmonary vein stenosis repair in a large single-center cohort.Methods: Clinical data from

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Stent Implantation Across the Atrial Flow Regulator Device

Enrico Piccinelli, Fausto Frazzetto, Mara Pilati, Gianfranco ButeraBambino Gesù Hospital and Research Institute. Politecnico di Torino. Università del Piemonte Orientale. Italy Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2024;DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03405-z AbstractThe Atrial Flow Regulator (AFR) is a self-expandable double-disc device with a central fenestration, intended to maintain a calibrated communication across the interatrial septum. We reported for the first time

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Survival of Infants With Severe Congenital Kidney Disease After ECMO and Kidney Support Therapy

Kara Short, Martha McBride, ScottAnderson, Rachel Miller, Daryl Ingram, Carl Coghill, Brian Sims, David AskenaziChildren’s of Alabama and University of Alabama at Birmingham.United States PediatricsPediatrics 2024; DOI: 10.1542/peds.2023-062717 AbstractCongenital kidney failure not only affects the homeostatic functions of the kidney, but also affects neonatal respiratory integrity. Until recently, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) support was not used

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