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

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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Pulsed Doppler assessment of pulmonary vein obstruction

Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, Helder Pauperio, Lee Benson, Robert M. Freedom, Richard D. Rowe Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada American Heart JournalAm Heart J 1985; 110: 483-486DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(85)90174-7 AbstractStenosis of the individual pulmonary veins is a rare condition, often presenting as recurrent pneumonia. Apart from radiologic features suggestive of pulmonary venous congestion, cardiac catheterization and angiocardiography

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Visualization of pulmonary vein obstruction by pulmonary artery wedge injection

Roberta M. Bini, Lionel M. Bargeron Jr University of Alabama, Birmingham.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 1982; 2: 161-162DOI: 10.1007/BF02424953 AbstractOne of the major postoperative complications of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is obstruction of the pulmonary veins. This event may be apparent immediately after surgery when it is usually due to congenitally obstructed veins or later

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Unilateral pulmonary vein atresia: Diagnosis and treatment

Antoine T. Nasrallah, Charles E. Mullins, Don Singer, Gunyon Harrison, Dan G. McNamara Baylor College of Medicine.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1975; 36: 969-973DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(75)90092-2 AbstractThe clinical, hemodynamic, angiographic and pathologic features of unilateral pulmonary vein atresia in a 16 month old boy are described. The relevant findings were symptoms and signs of

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