Medical Therapy to Prevent Recurrence of Disease after an Intervention. Efficacy or Lack of Efficacy

Drug-eluting stents ameliorate pulmonary vein stenotic changes in pigs in vivo

Takeshi Furukawa, Masahiko Kishiro, Hideo Fukunaga, Masahiro Ohtsuki, Ken Takahashi, Katsumi Akimoto, Toshiaki Shimizu, Shiori Kawasaki, Toshio Kumasaka Juntendo University School of Medicine.Japan Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2010; 31: 773-779DOI: 10.1007/s00246-010-9695-8 AbstractThe outcome of stent implantation for pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) in children remains poor. Several reports describe placing drug-eluting stents to treat PVS, but their effectiveness […]

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Intrastent sonotherapy in pulmonary vein restenosis: a new treatment for a recalcitrant problem

C. J. McMahon, C. E. Mullins, H. G. El Said Texas Children’s Hospital, Baylor College of MedicineUnited States HeartHeart 2003; 89: E6DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.2.e6 AbstractA 2 year old boy developed recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis after surgical repair of infradiaphragmatic pulmonary venous connection. He had required implantation of stents in the left and right sided pulmonary veins at

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Outcomes of surgery for young children with multivessel pulmonary vein stenosis

Luis G. Quinonez, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Michele Borisuk, Christina Ireland, Audrey M. Marshall, John E. Mayer, Kathy J. Jenkins, Francis E. Fynn-Thompson, Christopher W. Baird Boston Children’s Hospital.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2015; 150: 911-917DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2015.06.050 AbstractObjective: We pursued a multimodality approach to the treatment of patients with pulmonary vein stenosis, incorporating

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