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Pediatric Lung Transplantation for Pulmonary Vascular Diseases: Recent Advances and Challenges

Levent Midyat, Eleanor D. Muise, Gary A. Visner University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital. Harvard Medical School and Boston Children’s Hospital.United States Clinics in Chest MedicineClin Chest Med 2024; 45: 761-769DOI: 10.1016/j.ccm.2024.02.023 AbstractPediatric lung transplantation for pulmonary vascular diseases has seen notable […]

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De Novo and Progressive Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Following Pediatric Heart Transplantation: A Multicenter Retrospective Study

Arene Butto, Conor O’Halloran, James Kuo, Anna Joong, Amanda L. Hauck, Alan Nugent, William Mahle, Paul Tannous Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Lurie Children’s Hospital.United States Pediatric TransplantationPediatr Transplant 2024; 28:DOI: 10.1111/petr.14828 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare condition in which neointimal proliferation leads to venous and arterial hypertension. Little is known about PVS after heart

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Patient-specific 3D in vitro modeling and fluid dynamic analysis of primary pulmonary vein stenosis

Christian Devlin, Martin L. Tomov, Huang Chen, Sindhu Nama, Siraj Ali, Sunder Neelakantan, Reza Avazmohammadi, Lakshmi Prasad Dasi, Holly D. Bauser-Heaton, Vahid Serpooshan Emory University School of Medicine and Georgia Institute of Technology. Texas A&M University. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta.United States Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2024; 11:DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2024.1432784 AbstractIntroduction: Primary pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is

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Interventions for Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Sophia Hsien, Usha Krishnan, Christopher Petit New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center.United States Interventional Cardiology ClinicsInterv Cardiol Clin 2024; 13: 431-438DOI: 10.1016/j.iccl.2024.03.003 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare and unique disease of infants and young children. PVS is attended by high morbidity and mortality, and for many decades, effective

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Multimodal Assessment and Intramodal Comparison of Imaging Techniques for Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis with Pulmonary Hypertension

Victor Kieu, Stephanie S. Handler, Michael Mitchell, Amy Y. Pan, Liyun Zhang, Edward Kirkpatrick Medical College of Wisconsin and Children’s Wisconsin. Nemours Children’s Health.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2024;DOI: 10.1007/s00246-024-03531-8 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare, serious, and progressive disease in the pediatric population. Evaluation is complex and involves multimodality imaging. Diagnosis is important as

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Hybrid Interventions for Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Leveraging Intraoperative Endovascular Adjuncts in Challenging Clinical Scenarios

Alyssa B. Kalustian, Paige E. Brlecic, Srinath T. Gowda, Gary E. Stapleton, Asra Khan, Lindsay F. Eilers, Ravi Birla, Michiaki Imamura, Athar M. Qureshi, Christopher A. Caldarone, Manish Bansal Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.United States World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart SurgeryWorld J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2024;DOI: 10.1177/21501351241247503 AbstractBackground: Pediatric pulmonary vein

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Scimitar syndrome with vein stenosis in an infant

Fany Corvol, Sébastien Hascoet, Emmanuel Le Bret, Nadia Nathan Sorbonne University. Université Paris-Saclay, Marie-Lannelongue Surgical Centre. Ramsay Santé, Clinique du Sport. Sorbonne University.France British Medical Journal Case ReportsBMJ Case Rep 2024; 17:DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2024-259955 AbstractScimitar syndrome is characterised by right lung hypoplasia and abnormal pulmonary venous return, known as the ‘scimitar vein’. We report the case of an infant

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Rare cause of cardiac failure in an infant

Claudio Henriques, Helena Andrade, Antonio Pires Paediatric Hospital.Portugal Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2019; 29: 711-713DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000428 AbstractCongenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins is a rare condition whose outcome is guarded despite the available treatment options. We report a case of a 6-month-old infant with significant stenosis of all four pulmonary veins. CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of

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Pulmonary vein diameter, cross-sectional area, and shape: CT analysis

Yun-Hyeon Kim, Edith M. Marom, James E. Herndon, II, H. Page McAdams Chonnam National University Medical School. Duke University School of Medicine.Republic of Korea and United States RadiologyRadiology 2005; 235: 43-49DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2351032106 AbstractPurpose: To retrospectively establish normal values for pulmonary vein diameter, cross-sectional area, and shape depicted at computed tomography (CT).Materials and methods: Institutional review board waived patient

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A neonatal rat model of pulmonary vein stenosis

Debao Li, Lisheng Qiu, Haifa Hong, Hao Chen, Peibin Zhao, Yingying Xiao, Hao Zhang, Qi Sun, Lincai Ye Shanghai Children’s Medical Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital and Wenzhou Medical University. China Cell and BioscienceCell Biosci 2023; 13:DOI: 10.1186/s13578-023-01058-8 AbstractObjectives: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS), one of the most challenging clinical

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