Length of Life Associated with Pulmonary Venous Obstruction

Computed tomography-based surgical strategy for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Hironori Matsuhisa, Yoshihiro Oshima, Tomonori Higuma, Shunsuke Matsushima, Shota Hasegawa, Yuson Wada, Michio Matsuoka, Toshikatsu Tanaka Kobe Children’s Hospital.Japan European Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryEur J Cardiothorac Surg 2020; 58: 237-245DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezaa028 AbstractObjectives: We used computed tomographic angiography (CTA)-based surgical planning to clarify the anatomical indications of sutureless repair technique for total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. The mid-term […]

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Review of surgical experience in 61 patients with mixed total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Chen Wen, Guocheng Shi, Qian Zhang, Fang Zhu, Hao Zhang, Zhongqun Zhu, Huiwen Chen Shanghai Children’s Medical Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.China European Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryEur J Cardiothorac Surg 2022; 61: 1299-1305DOI: 10.1093/ejcts/ezac020 AbstractObjectives: Prior studies have reported a high mortality and incidence of post-repair pulmonary venous obstruction (PVO) in mixed total anomalous pulmonary venous

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Primary sutureless repair for “simple” total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: midterm results in a single institution

Bobby Yanagawa, Abdullah A. Alghamdi, Andreea Dragulescu, Nicola Viola, Osman O. Al-Radi, Luc L. Mertens, John G. Coles, Christopher A. Caldarone, Glen S. VanArsdell Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011; 141: 1346-1354DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.10.056 AbstractObjective: We have previously reported the use of an atriopericardial or “sutureless”

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Five cases of an undescribed form of pulmonary interstitial fibrosis caused by obstruction of the pulmonary veins

E. C. Andrews Johns Hopkins University School of MedicineUnited States Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins HospitalBull Johns Hopkins Hosp 1957; 100: 28-42DOI: Not Available AbstractSummary: The clinical course and autopsy findings of five cases are presented, which demonstrate that obstruction of the pulmonary vein from any cause leads to an unusual form of interstitial fibrosis

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Unilateral absence or extreme hypoplasia of pulmonary veins

H. M. Kingston, R. G. Patel, G. H. Watson Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital.United Kingdom British Heart JournalBrit Heart J 1983; 49: 148-153DOI: 10.1136/hrt.49.2.148 AbstractThree children with recurrent chest symptoms and signs caused by unilateral atresia or absence of the pulmonary veins are described, with a discussion of the seven reported cases of unilateral congenital pulmonary venous

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Congenital pulmonary vein stenosis

Roberta M. Bini, David C. Cleveland, Ricardo Ceballos, Lionel M. Bargeron, Albert D. Pacifico, John W. Kirklin University of Alabama BirminghamUnited States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1984; 54: 369-375DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(84)90199-1 AbstractCongenital pulmonary vein stenosis is a rare and serious form of congenital heart disease. Between 1969 and 1982 10 patients with this lesion were

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Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Long-term results following repair in infancy

Christopher M. Whight, Brian G. Barratt-Boyes, A. Louise Calder, John M. Neutze, Peter W. Brandt Green Lane Hospital.New Zealand Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1978; 75: 52-63DOI: Not Available AbstractTwenty-three infants, aged 5 days to 10 months, underwent repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC). Coronary sinus drainage was unusually

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Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Shunji Sano, William J. Brawn, Roger B. Mee Royal Children’s Hospital.Australia Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1989; 97: 886-992DOI: Not Available AbstractForty-four patients with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage underwent repair between 1979 and 1987. The anomalous drainage was supracardiac in 16, cardiac in 12, and infracardiac in 16. Median age

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Relentless pulmonary vein stenosis after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Christopher A. Caldarone, Hani K. Najm, Margit Kadletz, Jeffrey F. Smallhorn, Robert M. Freedom, William G. Williams, John G. Coles Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1998; 66: 1514-1520DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00952-7 AbstractBackground: Progressive stenosis of the pulmonary veins after repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage is frequently refractory to

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Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: an analysis of current management strategies in a single institution

Camille L. Hancock Friesen, David Zurakowski, Ravi R. Thiagarajan, Joseph M. Forbess, Pedro J. del Nido, John E. Mayer, Richard A. Jonas Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2005; 79: 596-606DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2004.07.005 AbstractBackground: Repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) continues to be associated with significant mortality. We

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