Catheter-mediated Interventions: Efficacy or Lack of Efficacy

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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Systemic Sirolimus Therapy Is Associated With Reduced Intervention Frequency in Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Alyssa B. Kalustian, Joseph L. Hagan, Paige E. Brlecic, Ionela Iacobas, Rachel D. Vanderlaan, Joseph Burns, Thao T. Wu, Ravi Birla, Sharada Gowda, Manish Bansal, Srinath T. Gowda, Lindsay F. Eilers, Asra Khan, Juan Pablo Sandoval-Jones, Michiaki Imamura, Yishay Orr, Christopher A. Caldarone, Athar M. Qureshi Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Hospital

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Atresia of right pulmonary veins with intact atrial septum and major aorto-pulmonary collateral treated with percutaneous stent implantation and embolization

Gian Paolo Ussia, Maurizio Marasini, Alesandro Rimini, Giacomo Pongiglione Istituto Giannina Gaslini Children’s Hospital.Italy Journal of Interventional CardiologyJ Interv Cardiol 2004; 17: 183-187DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2004.09883.x AbstractUnilateral pulmonary vein (PV) atresia is a rare congenital cardiac malformation with evolution toward irreversible pulmonary hypertension. Pneumonectomy or lung transplant is currently the treatment of choice for such a disease. We

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Recurrent unilateral bacterial pneumonias and interstitial fibrosis associated with pulmonary vein atresia: successful treatment with endovascular stent implantation

O. Sacco, B. Fregonese, L. Fregonese, C. Gambini, G. Pongiglione, G. A. Rossi I.R.C.C.S. Giannina Gaslini.Italy Pediatric PulmonologyPediatr Pulmonol 2002; 34: 324-328DOI: 10.1002/ppul.10158 AbstractA variety of pulmonary vascular disorders, such as hemangiomatosis, telangectasia, and veno-occlusive disease, may be involved in the pathogenesis of interstitial lung diseases. We describe the case of a girl with recurrent bacterial

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Esophageal varices in association with unilateral pulmonary vein atresia

J. Kevin Harrison, Steven E. Hearne, William M. Baker, Peter Van Trigt, Gil Leidig, Thomas M. Bashore, Martin P. O’Laughlin Duke University Medical Center.United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular DiagnosesCathet Cardiovasc Diagn 1996; 38: 387-392DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199608)38:4<387::AID-CCD14>3.0.CO;2-C AbstractA 27-yr-old woman with recurrent episodes of hemoptysis (and hematemesis due to esophageal varices) was found to have unilateral pulmonary vein

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Anchoring guide catheter to facilitate recanalising occluded pulmonary vein in small children: a novel technique

Bassel Mohammad Nijres, Samantha Muller, Mohsen Karimi, Osamah Aldoss King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center. Stead Family Children’s Hospital and University of Iowa.Saudi Arabia and United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2024;DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124025605 AbstractTranscatheter pulmonary vein recanalisation is challenging. Herein, we described a novel technique facilitating the recanalisation of occluded three pulmonary veins in

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Dural arteriovenous fistulae in a 6-year-old girl with trisomy 21 and congenital heart disease

Toshiya Ishikura, Yuri Sonoda, Yoshitomo Motomura, Kenta Kajiwara, Noriyuki Kaku, Pin Fee Chong, Yuichiro Hirata, Hikaru Kanemasa, Hazumu Nagata, Kenichiro Yamamura, Koichi Arimura, Akira Nakamizo, Yasunari Sakai, Shouichi Ohga Kyushu University.Japan Clinical Neurology and NeurosurgeryClin Neurol Neurosurg 2024;DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2024.108540 AbstractDural arteriovenous fistula (DAVF) represents a pathological group of intracranial shunts arising from the dural artery to

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