Catheter-mediated Interventions: Efficacy or Lack of Efficacy

Hybrid approach to pulmonary vein stenting after Fontan palliation

Daniel R. Critchfield, Reid C. Chamberlain, Joseph W. Turek, Gregory A. Fleming Duke University Medical Center.United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2023;DOI: 10.1002/ccd.30831 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis is poorly tolerated in patients who have undergone Fontan palliation and typically requires surgical or transcatheter intervention. Percutaneous transcatheter approaches to intervention can be technically difficult due to […]

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Intraoperative and percutaneous stenting of congenital pulmonary artery and vein stenosis

Alan M. Mendelsohn, Edward L. Bove, Flavian M. Lupinetti, Dennis C. Crowley, Thomas R. Lloyd, Raymond T. Fedderly, Robert H. Beekman III University of Michigan Medical Center.United States CirculationCirculation 1993; 88: II210-II217DOI: Not Available AbstractBackground: Conventional surgical or balloon dilation therapy for pulmonary artery or vein stenosis has been unsatisfactory in many patients. Balloon-expandable stents offer

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Use of endovascular stents in congenital heart disease

Martin P. O’Laughlin, Stanton B. Perry, James E. Lock, Charles E. Mullins Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States CirculationCirculation 1991; 83: 1923-1939DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.83.6.1923 AbstractBackground: Balloon expandable intravascular stents have been used to support vessel walls in coronary and peripheral arteries in adults. The purpose of this study

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Interventional cardiac catheterization procedures in pediatric cardiac transplant patients: transplant surgery is not the end of the road

Gira S. Morchi, Biagio Pietra, Mark M. Boucek, Kak-Chen Chan The Children’s Hospital and University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.United States Cathetrization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2008; 72: 831-836.DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21725 AbstractObjectives: The objectives of this study are to report the spectrum of cardiac lesions in pediatric patients post-orthotopic heart transplantation (OHT), the characteristics of patients who

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