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Essential role of cardiac computed tomography for surgical decision making in children with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection and single ventricle

Ana L. Vasquez Choy, Dilachew A. Adebo, Sheba John, Christopher E. Greenleaf, Jorge D. Salazar, Antonio F. Korno Children’s Heart Institute, Memorial Hermann Hospital and University of Texas Medical School at Houston.United States Journal of Cardiac SurgeryJ Card Surg 2022; 37: 1544-1549DOI: 10.1111/jocs.16427 AbstractBackground: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a major risk factor in infants […]

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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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Pulsed wave and color Doppler findings in congenital pulmonary vein stenosis

Steven A. Webber, Eustace de Souza, Michael W. H. Patterson British Columbia Children’s Hospital and University of British Columbia.Canada Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 1992; 13: 112-115DOI: 10.1007/BF00798218 AbstractA premature infant presented at 8 weeks of age with respiratory failure and pulmonary hypertension. Two-dimensional echocardiography was not diagnostic but color flow imaging and pulsed Doppler examination revealed turbulent

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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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