Diagnostic Testing. Invasive

Pulmonary vein stenosis of ex-premature infants with pulmonary hypertension and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, epidemiology, and survival from a multicenter cohort

Linda Mahgoub, Tarek Kaddoura, A. Rebecca Kameny, Palmona Lopez Ortego, Rachael D. Vanderlaan, Ashok Kakadekar, Frank Dicke, Ivan Rebeyka, Christopher A. Caldarone, Andrew Redington, Maria Jesus del Cerro, Jeff Fineman, Ian Adatia Stollery Children’s Hospital and University of Alberta. Benioff Children’s Hospital and University of California San Francisco. Hospital for Sick Children. Royal University Hospital. […]

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Complete follow-up echocardiograms are needed to detect stenosis of normally connecting pulmonary veins

L. Luann Minich, Lloyd Y. Tani, John P. Breinholt, Anne Marie Tuohy, Robert E. Shaddy Primary Children’s Medical Center and University of Utah.United States EchocardiographyEchocardiography 2001; 18: 589-592DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8175.2001.00589.x AbstractReimbursement for limited echocardiograms focusing on known pathology rather than complete studies has recently received widespread attention. Few data are available to determine if these limited examinations

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Absent left pulmonary vein without anomalous connection: diagnosis and management in the newborn

Ashok V. Mehta, Balasubrahmanyam Chidambaram James H. Quillen College of Medicine.United States American Heart JournalAm Heart J 1992; 124: 804-806DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(92)90302-c AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryAbsence or Atresia of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsDiagnostic Testing. Invasive Year of Publication: 1992 Age Focus: Pediatric Article Type: Case Reports or Retrospective Observations in Small Groups of Patients (≤10 patients) Article

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Assessment of pulmonary vein stenosis by transesophageal echocardiography

Tandaw E. Samdarshi, W. Robert Morrow, Frederick R. Helmcke, Navin C. Nanda, L. M. Bargeron, Jr., Albert D. Pacifico University of Alabama.United States American Heart JournalAm Heart J 1991; 122: 1495-1498DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(91)90605-h AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Surgical Repair of Anomalous Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsDiagnostic Testing. Invasive Year of Publication: 1991 Age

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Intrapulmonary agenesis of venous system and bronchopulmonary arterial anastomosis

Mohinder K. Thapar, Eduardo Riff, Zohair Halees King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre.Saudi Arabia British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1991; 66: 182-184DOI: 10.1136/hrt.66.2.182 AbstractAgenesis of the intrapulmonary and extrapulmonary veins of the right lung was found by angiography and histological examination in a three year old boy. Blood supplied by the intersegmental arteries drained via

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Isolated pulmonary vein atresia

S. Cullen, P. F. Deasy, E. Tempany, D.F. Duff Our Lady’s Hospital for Sick Children.Ireland British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1990; 63: 350-354DOI: 10.1136/hrt.63.6.350 AbstractTwo patients with isolated atresia of the pulmonary veins are described. One patient presented with haemoptysis and the other with recurrent unilateral chest infections. The diagnosis was confirmed in both instances by

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Complete absence of pulmonary veins

M. A. Ralston, D. W. Teske Children’s Hospital, Columbus.United States Clinical CardiologyClin Cardiol 1988; 11: 272-275DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960110415 AbstractVarious types of pulmonary venous return abnormalities have been described in the literature. This report presents a case in which a 4-h-old neonate presented with cyanotic heart disease and respiratory distress. This neonate was subsequently shown to have complete

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Significance of the Pulmonary Vascular Bed in Congenital Heart Disease: V. Lesions of the Left Side of the Heart Causing Obstruction of the Pulmonary Venous Return

Charlotte Ferencz, J. Francis Dammann Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. University of Virginia.United States CirculationCirculation 1957; 16:1046-1056DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.16.6.1046 AbstractA microscopic study was made of the lungs of 18 patients with congenital malformations of the heart in which there was obstruction of pulmonary venous drainage. Alterations in various components of the pulmonary vascular bed and of the

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The pulmonary pressures in pulmonary venous obstruction

Merritt C. Warren, Philip M. Benaron, Norman J. Sissman Stanford University School of Medicine.United States CirculationCirculation 1968; 38: 1127-1135DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.38.6.1127 AbstractThe contour of the pulmonary artery wedge pressure tracing in a case of pulmonary venous obstruction was unique and may be diagnostic. Wedged pressures were obtained in both a pulmonary artery and a pulmonary vein on

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Congenital obstruction of the pulmonary veins at their atrial junctions. Review of the literature and a case report

Wigher Mortensson, Nils-Rune Lundström University Hospital, Lund.Sweden American Heart JournalAm Heart J 1974; 87: 359-362DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(74)90078-7 AbstractA survey of the reports of congenital stenosis and/or atresias of the pulmonary veins is presented and a new case added. The correct diagnosis has not been made in vivo. “Recurrent respiratory tract infections” and hemoptysis are the most common

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