Surgical and Catheter-mediated Interventions for Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Reverse Potts shunt as rescue from venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in pulmonary veno-occlusive disease

Emily Davis, Can Yerebakan, John T. BergerUMC Children’s Hospital and University Medical Center of Southern Nevada. Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Children’s National Hospital.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2025; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951125001957 AbstractPulmonary veno-occlusive disease has no definitive cure apart from lung transplant. The reverse Potts shunt can be a palliative bridge to transplant. A post-arrest 14-year-old […]

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[Pulmonary arteriovenous fistulas in a pediatric patient: a case report]

Yuli T. Samboni, Liliana P. Tordecilla, Gilberto Acuña, Ana L. MuñozUniversidad Antonio Nariño.Columbia Archivos Argentinos de PediatriaArch Argent Pediatr 2020; 118: e170-e173DOI: 10.5546/aap.2020.e170 AbstractPulmonary arteriovenous fistulas are congenital malformations due to anomalous direct communication between arteries and veins; the incidence is 2-3:100,000 inhabitants. This condition is usually asymptomatic and incidentally appearing in adult imaging findings. Transcutaneous

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Postrepair Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Addressing Anatomic and Patient Risk Factors to Improve Outcomes

Alessia Di Nardo, Elizabeth D. Persaud, Rachel D. VanderlaanUniversity of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children.Canada Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Pediatric Cardiac Surgery AnnualSemin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu 2025; 28: 107-116DOI: 10.1053/j.pcsu.2025.02.008 AbstractSurgical results for correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) have improved in the current era. Postrepair pulmonary

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[Cyanosis for more than 4 years in a girl aged 4 years and 3 months]

Mao-Lan Wu, Xiang-Rong Zheng, Yan-Tong Zhu, Guo-Yuan Zhang, Chen-Tao Liu, Xia Wang, Yong-Jun TangXiangya Hospital and Central South University.China Chinese Journal of Contemporary PediatricsZhongguo Dang Dai Er Ke Za Zhi 2020; 22: 387-390DOI: 10.7499/j.issn.1008-8830.1910147 AbstractA girl, aged 4 years and 3 months, presented with cyanosis of the lips shortly after birth. She then experienced shortness of

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Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia and pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

Saniye Girit, Ebru Senol, Özge Karatas, Ayse Inci YıldırımIstanbul Medeniyet University. Göztepe Training and Research Hospital. University of Health Sciences Medical School Dr. Lutfi Kırdar Kartal Educational and Research Hospital. University of Health Sciences Medical School Kartal Kosuyolu High Speciality Educational and Research Hospital.Turkey Respiratory Medicine Case ReportsRespir Med Case Rep 2020; 30: DOI: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2020.101137 AbstractPulmonary

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Pulmonary arteriovenous malformation in a pediatric patient with epistaxis and hypoxemia

Ryan W. England, Clifford R. WeissJohns Hopkins Hospital.United States Radiology Case ReportsRadiol Case Rep 2020; 15: 1759-1763DOI: 10.1016/j.radcr.2020.07.026 AbstractHereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT; also known as Osler-Weber-Rendu syndrome) is an inherited vascular disorder with a spectrum of clinical manifestations depending on lesion distribution. Epistaxis, mucocutaneous telangiectasia, and gastrointestinal bleeding are most common. Patients with pulmonary arteriovenous malformations

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Hemodynamic rounds: Transcatheter creation of ventricular septal defect in pulmonary arterial hypertension with suprasystemic pressures

Kothandam SivakumarMadras Medical Mission.India Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2024; 17: 448-454DOI: 10.4103/apc.apc_211_24 AbstractThis hemodynamic round section deals with severe pulmonary arterial hypertension with suprasystemic pulmonary artery pressures in a patient who underwent delayed surgical correction of the double-outlet right ventricle with a large subaortic ventricular septal defect (VSD). Recreation of a moderate-sized VSD by

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ThoroughFare atrial pressure controller device to create a controlled interatrial right-to-left shunt in advanced pulmonary arterial hypertension – A pilot study

Bojja Venkata Satya Roopesh, Girija Haritha, S. V. Kishore, Muthukumaran Chinnasamy Sivaprakasam, Shreesha Maiya, Saileela Rajan, Pramod Sagar, Kothandam SivakumarMadras Medical Mission. Apollo Children’s Hospital. Narayana Health. MIOT HospitalIndia Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2024; 17: 408-414DOI: 10.4103/apc.apc_209_24 AbstractBackground: Atrial flow regulators are used in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) who present with syncope or

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Transcatheter Hepatic Conduit-Azygous Vein Connection Reduces Pulmonary Arteriovenous Malformations in a Cyanotic Fontan Patient

Kanishka Ratnayaka, Zhenglun A. Wei, Justin R. Ryan, Caitlin M. Heyden, Hari K. Narayan, Timothy C. Slesnick, Robert J. Lederman, John W. Moore, Ajit P. Yoganathan, Howaida G. El-SaidRady Children’s Hospital and University of California-San Diego. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. University of Massachusetts Lowell. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Georgia Institute of Technology and

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A Congenital Portosystemic Shunt in a Child With Heterotaxy, Situs Inversus, Polysplenia, and Interrupted Inferior Vena Cava With Azygous Continuation

Victoria Carvajal, Saigopala Reddy, Vani Gopalareddy, Adrienne Bean, Gonzalo WallisLevine Children’s Hospital. University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Medical School. United States American College of Gastroenterology Case Reports JournalACG Case Rep J 2023; DOI: 10.14309/crj.0000000000001201 AbstractCongenital portosystemic shunts are rare vascular malformations in which portal venous blood from the intestines and spleen bypasses the liver and

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