Patient Factors Influencing the Onset, Severity or Outcome of Disease

Pulmonary arterial hypertension caused by compression of the left lower pulmonary vein in children

Li Chen, Cheng Wang, Jiachen Li, Lizhi Lv, Yongtao Wu, Gang Li, Guofeng Xing, Xiaoyong Jing, Zhimin Liu, Qiang Wang Beijing Anzhen Hospital and Capital Medical University.  Fuwai Hospital, National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College.China Journal of Cardiothoracic SurgeryJ Cardiothorac Surg 2026;DOI: 10.1186/s13019-026-04085-x AbstractObjectives To investigate, through […]

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Characteristics and outcomes of preterm infants with pulmonary vein stenosis in the contemporary era: a PHIS database analysis

Mohamed F. Elsisy, Fred Z. Lam, Mark M. Naguib, Mary E. Dees, James C. Gay, George T. Nicholson Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. United States Journal of PerinatologyJ Perinatol 2026; DOI: 10.1038/s41372-026-02703-z AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is increasingly recognized in preterm infants, yet data regarding characteristics and outcomes remain limited.Methods: A review of hospitalizations from

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Case report: Rescue treatment with add-on selexipag in a preterm infant with suprasystemic pulmonary hypertension, pulmonary capillary hemangiomatosis, and isolated pulmonary vein stenosis

Hosan Hasan, Klea Hysko, Thomas Jack, Jens Dingemann, Martin Wetzke, Georg Hansmann Hannover Medical School. European Pediatric Pulmonary Vascular Disease Network.Germany Frontiers in Cardiovascular MedicineFront Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9: DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.984698 AbstractAn extremely dystrophic, premature female infant, born at 25 3/7 weeks of gestational age (birth weight: 430 g) with severe pulmonary hypertension (PH), was admitted

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Hemoptysis due to progressive scoliosis associated with congenital heart disease: a case report

Kohei Yamaguchi, Masashi Uehara, Hiroki Oba, Terue Hatakenaka, Shugo Kuraishi, Shota Ikegami, Takashi Takizawa, Ryo Munakata, Takayuki Kamanaka, Yoshinari Miyaoka, Kiyohiro Takigiku, Jun Takahashi Shinshu University School of Medicine. Nagano Children’s Hospital.Japan BioMedical Ceentral Musculoskeletal DisordersBMC Musculoskelet Dis 2022; 23:DOI: 10.1186/s12891-022-05225-9 AbstractBackground: Patients with congenital heart disease (CHD) are associated with an increased incidence of scoliosis, often

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Pericardial effusion and pulmonary vein stenosis in severe bronchopulmonary dysplasia

Emma E. Williams, Mahesh Nanjundappa, Kunal Babla, James Wong, Theodore Dassios, Anne Greenough King’s College London and King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. Evelina Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.United Kingdom Archives of Disease in Children Fetal and Neonatal EditionArch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed 2022; 107: DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2021-321830 AbstractAbstract Not Available

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Mid-term outcomes of cor triatriatum repair: comparison of biventricular physiology and univentricular physiology

Hiroyuki Nagao, Toshikatsu Tanaka Kobe Children’s Hospital.Japan Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2021; 31: 186-190DOI: 10.1017/S1047951120003595 AbstractBackground: Cor triatriatum is the rarest of all congenital cardiac diseases, accounting for 0.1-0.4% of congenital heart diseases. Atrial septal defect is the most common associated defect; however, cor triatriatum is sometimes associated with univentricular heart.Methods: This single-centre retrospective study involved all

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Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia: A Review

Nidhy Varghese, Danielle Rios Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital.United States Pediatric Allergy Immunology and PulmonologyPediatr Allergy Immunol Pulmonol 2019; 32: 140-148DOI: 10.1089/ped.2018.0984 AbstractEarly pulmonary vascular disease (PVD) and established pulmonary hypertension (PH) are common associations of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). Diagnosis of PH is often made by echocardiography because of technical and logistic difficulties

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Severe hypertriglyceridemia associated with everolimus drug-eluting stent placement in an infant

Kuan-Chi Lai, Julie A. Brothers, Jason Z. Stoller Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2019; 29: 541-543DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000167 AbstractWe report a case of severe hypertriglyceridemia associated with an everolimus drug-eluting stent in an infant with pulmonary vein stenosis. We review from current literature the mechanisms by which everolimus may cause dyslipidaemia, pharmacokinetics

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Down Syndrome with Complete Atrioventricular Septal Defect, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy, and Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Guruprasad Mahadevaiah, Manoj Gupta, Ravi Ashwath Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital.United States Texas Heart Institute JournalTex Heart Inst J 2015; 42: 458-461DOI: 10.14503/THIJ-14-4256 AbstractThe prevalence of congenital heart disease in infants with Down syndrome is 40%, compared with 0.3% in children who have normal chromosomes. Atrioventricular and ventricular septal defects are often associated with chromosomal aberrations,

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[Management of Pulmonary Blood Flow for a Patient with Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Undergoing Pulmonary Venous Obstruction Release and Pulmonary Artery Banding]

Satoshi Ideno, Shinichi Yamamoto, Fujiko Oda, Rie Wakamiya, Kana Ozawa, Haruka Kaneko, Taku Matsuoka, Atsushi Shinto, Hiromi Mikasa, Noriko Miyazawa Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center.Japan MasuiMasui 2015; 64: 168-173DOI: Not Available AbstractCongenital pulmonary vein stenosis (CPVS) is a rare fetal congenital heart disease with a prevalence of 1.7 per 100,000 children younger than two years

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