Article Type: Case Reports or Retrospective Observations in Small Groups of Patients (≤10 patients)

Tailoring stents to fit the anatomy of unique vascular stenoses in congenital heart disease

Patrick M. Sullivan, Aimee Liou, Cheryl Takao, Henri Justino, Christopher J. Petit, Jorge D. Salazar, Frank F. Ing Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine. Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine. Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical SchoolUnited […]

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Drainage of the pulmonary veins into the right side of the heart

Henry Brody Beth Israel Hospital.United States Archives of PathologyArch Pathol 1942; 33: 221-240DOI: Not Available AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins: Other CategoriesA comprehensive report of published cases of partial and total anomalous pulmonary venous connectionOne case of potential intraluminal stenosis of an anomalous pulmonary veinPulmonary Venous Pathology Year of Publication: 1942

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Isolated atresia of the left pulmonary veins

Alberto Cabrera, Carlos Vazquez, Iñaki Lekuona Hospital Infantil, Bilbao.Spain International Journal of CardiologyInt J Cardiol 1985; 7: 298-302DOI: 10.1016/0167-5273(85)90055-5 AbstractFour cases of congenital isolated atresia of the left pulmonary veins were observed over a 12-year period. The diagnosis was established through radionuclide pulmonary perfusion studies together with cardiac catheterization and pulmonary arteriography. Both procedures showed an

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Surgical management of infants with complex cardiac anomalies associated with reduced pulmonary blood flow and total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Serafin Y. DeLeon, Samuel S. Gidding, Michel N. Ilbawi, Farouk S. Idriss, Alexander J. Muster, Roger B. Cole, Milton H. Paul Northwestern University Medical School. Children’s Memorial Hospital.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1987; 43: 207-211DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(10)60398-0 AbstractEight infants with complex cardiac anomalies and pulmonary stenosis or atresia were noted to have obstructed total

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Late complications following surgical repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return below the diaphragm

William H. Fleming, Edward B. Clark, Kenneth J. Dooley, Philip J. Hofschire, Roger N. Ruckman, Alan R. Hopeman, Lynne Sarafian, Paul K. Mooring University of Nebraska Medical Center and Henrietta Egleston Hospital for Children.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1979; 27: 435-439DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(10)63342-5 AbstractBetween May, 1975, and June, 1977, we surgically repaired an infracardiac

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

Beat Friedli, Andre Davignon, Paul Stanley University of Montreal and Sainte Justine HospitalCanada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1971; 62: 301-306DOI: Not Available AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Surgical Repair of Anomalous Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsPulmonary Hypertension Associated with Stenosis or Atresia of Pulmonary VeinsSurgical Interventions for

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The Role of Elevated Wall Shear Stress in Progression of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Evidence from Two Case Studies

Peter E. Hammer, Kerry McEnaney, Ryan Callahan, Christopher W. Baird, David M. Hoganson, Kathy J. Jenkins Boston Children’s Hospital.United States ChildrenChildren 2021; 8:DOI: 10.3390/children8090729 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis is a serious condition characterized by restriction or blockage due to fibrotic tissue ingrowth that develops in the pulmonary veins of infants or children. It is often progressive and

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Mechanism of pulmonary vein stenosis in infants with normally connected veins

Iran M. Sadr, Puay E. Tan, Mark W. Kieran, Kathy J. Jenkins Children’s Hospital, Boston.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 2000; 86: 577-579DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(00)01022-5 AbstractWe used microscopy, immunohistochemistry, and cell culture to identify the mechanism of restenosis in 4 infants with isolated pulmonary vein stenosis. Recurrent obstruction appears to be due to myofibroblastic proliferation

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First locus for primary pulmonary vein stenosis maps to chromosome 2q

Ingrid van de Laar, Marja Wessels, Ingrid Frohn-Mulder, Michiel Dalinghaus, Bianca de Graaf, Marianne van Tienhoven, Paul van der Moer, Margreet Husen-Ebbinge, Maarten Lequin, Dennis Dooijes, Ronald de Krijger, Ben A. Oostra, Aida M. Bertoli-Avella Erasmus Medical Center. Medical Center Rijnmond-Zuid.Netherlands European Heart JournalEur Heart J 2009; 30: 2485–2492DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehp271 AbstractAims: Primary pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is

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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 23511

Tracy B. Mallory Massachusetts General Hospital.United States New England Journal of MedicineNew Eng J Med 1937; 217: 1045-1049DOI: Not Available AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins: Other Categories (Intimal Thickening of Left Atrium, Pulmonary Veins and Pulmonary Arteries)Symptoms and Quality of Life Associated with Pulmonary Venous ObstructionLength of Life Associated with Pulmonary

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