Catheter-mediated Interventions: Efficacy or Lack of Efficacy

Virtual reality modelling based on computed tomography and three-dimensional angiography for planning of percutaneous and hybrid treatment in infants with pulmonary vein stenosis

Judyta Szeliga, Małgorzata Waśko, Jacek Kołcz, Andrzej Rudziński, Ryan Callahan, Sebastian Góreczny University Children’s Hospital and Jagiellonian University Medical College. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.Poland and United States Advances in Interventional CardiologyAdv Interv Cardiol (Postepy Kardiol Interwencyjnej) 2025; 21: 108-113DOI: 10.5114/aic.2025.147992 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction […]

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Novel Use of Drug-Coated Balloon Angioplasty to Treat Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Saloni Agrawal, Kali A. Hopkins, Ali N. Zaidi, Barry Love Mount Sinai Hospital. Mount Sinai Fuster Heart Hospital.United States Journal of the American College of Cardiology Case ReportsJACC Case Rep 2024; 29:DOI: 10.1016/j.jaccas.2024.102613 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis is challenging to treat due to high rate of recurrence. Multiple interventions exist but are limited by high rates of

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Paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting balloon for pulmonary vein stenosis after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return with asplenia

Hiroshi Ono, Ryo Mafune, Taiyu Hayashi, Yasushi Misaki, Yukihiro Kaneko, Jumpei Saito, Miki Nagai, Hitoshi Kato National Medical Center for Child Health and Development.Japan Journal of Cardiology CasesJ Cardiol Cases 2020; 22: 107-109DOI: 10.1016/j.jccase.2020.05.008 AbstractWe used a paclitaxel-coated drug-eluting balloon (DEB) for pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous return with asplenia.

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Paclitaxel drug-eluting stent placement for pulmonary vein stenosis as a bridge to heart-lung transplantation

Andreea Dragulescu, Olivier Ghez, Jacques Quilici, Alain Fraisse Centre Hospitalo-Universitaire La Timone.France Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2009; 30: 1169-1171DOI: 10.1007/s00246-009-9511-5 AbstractCongenital pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) presents as an isolated lesion or in association with other congenital heart anomalies. The most extensive forms of the disease are uniformly fatal because neither surgical repair nor transcatheter therapy results in

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Serial echocardiography in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: diagnosing and managing recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis

Oishi Sikdar, Mahesh Nanjundappa, Aaron Bell, Matthew Jones and Anne Greenough King’s College London. Evelina Children’s Hospital.United Kingdom Case Reports in Perinatal MedicineCase Rep Perinat Med 2025; 14:DOI: 10.1515/crpm-2024-0038 AbstractObjectives: To highlight the importance of serial echocardiography in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) to diagnose recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) and understand its contribution to respiratory

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Feasibility of Electric Impedance Tomography in the Assessment of Lung Perfusion and Ventilation in Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Jenny E. Zablah, Catalina Vargas-Acevedo, Nilton da BarbosaRosa Jr., Omid Rajabi Shishvan, Gary Saulnier, David Isaacson, Gareth J. Morgan, Jennifer L. Mueller University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and Children’S Hospital Colorado. Colorado State University. University at Albany and State University of New York. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2025;DOI: 10.1007/s00246-025-03816-6 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis

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Balloon Dilation Technique Influences Stent Shortening and Intentional Stent Fracture During Overexpansion of Drug-Eluting Stents: A Bench-Testing Study

Mudit Gupta, Ella B. Leeth, Yuval Barak-Corren, Ari J. Gartenberg, Elizabeth Silvestro, Michael L. O’Byrne, Ryan Callahan Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Akron Children’s Hospital and Northeast Ohio Medical University.United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2025;DOI: 10.1002/ccd.31428 AbstractBackground and aims: Drug-eluting stents (DES) are not designed for overexpansion

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Indications for cardiac catheterization and intervention in pediatric cardiac disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Timothy F. Feltes, Emile Bacha, Robert H. Beekman III, John P. Cheatham, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Antoinette S. Gomes, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Frank F. Ing, Michael de Moor, W. Robert Morrow, Charles E. Mullins, Kathryn A. Taubert, Evan M. Zahn, on behalf of the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular

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Congenital stenosis of individual pulmonary veins: clinical spectrum and unsuccessful treatment by transvenous balloon dilation

David J. Driscoll, Peter S. Hesslein, Charles E. Mullin Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Heart Institute.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1982; 49: 1767-1772DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(82)90257-0 AbstractCongenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins is a rare but frequently lethal congenital cardiac abnormality. Eight patients with this malformation were diagnosed, evaluated and treated. All eight

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Mortality Patterns in Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Insights Into Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Associations

Daiji Takajo, Paul J. Critser, Michelle Cash, Melissa Magness, Russel Hirsch Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati.United States Journal of the American Heart AssociationJ Am Heart Assoc 2025;DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.124.037908 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis in children is associated with a poor prognosis. However, the cause and risk factors for mortality remain uncertain.Methods: This retrospective, single-center study

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