Age Focus: Pediatric

Long-term outcomes of individualised repair in patients with primary pulmonary vein stenosis

Zhangwei Wang, Yang Yang Beijing Children’s Hospital, National Children’s Medical Center and Capital Medical University.China Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2025; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124026180 AbstractObjectives: Primary pulmonary vein stenosis is a rare congenital heart condition and carries a poor prognosis. Various surgical techniques have been introduced to treat primary pulmonary vein stenosis. However, there is no consensus on […]

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Atrial thrombus after total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair

Noriyoshi Ebuoka, Hidetsugu Asai, Sachiko Kimura, Tsuyoshi Tachibana Hokkaido Medical Center for Child Health and Rehabilitation. Kanagawa Children’s Medical Center.Japan Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic AnnalsAsian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann 2024; 32: 314-316DOI: 10.1177/02184923241256408 AbstractA 6-year-old boy had previously undergone total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair and postoperative pulmonary vein stenosis release. Magnetic resonance imaging revealed blood stasis

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New Era of Measurable Surgical Risk Predictor by 3D Quantitative CT on Pulmonary Venous Return

Shyh-Jye Chen National Taiwan University Hospital and Children’s Hospital.Taiwan Journal of the American College of Cardiology AsiaJACC Asia 2024; 4: 607-608DOI: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2024.06.001 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Surgical Repair of Anomalous Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsDiagnostic Testing. Noninvasive Year of Publication: 2024 Age Focus: Pediatric Article Type: Editorial or Letter Article Access: Free

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Quantification of 3-Dimensional Confluence-Atrial Morphology in Supracardiac Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection

Guocheng Shi, Meiping Huang, Yuchen Pei, Peng Huang, Chen Wen, Jin Shentu, Hao Zhang, Zhongqun Zhu, Yumin Zhong, Lisheng Wang, Huiwen Chen Shanghai Children’s Medical Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. Guangdong General Hospital. Hunan Children’s Hospital.China Journal of the American College of Cardiology AsiaJACC Asia 2024; 4: 594-606DOI: 10.1016/j.jacasi.2024.05.002 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis

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Impact of the pulmonary venous entry site morphology on postoperative pulmonary vein stenosis in total anomalous pulmonary venous connection patients

Szu-Yen Hu, Jing-Ren Ye, Heng-Wen Chou, Yih-Sharng Chen, Chung-I Chang, Ing-Sh Chiu, Chih-Ting Lin, Hsiao-En Tsai, Shyh-Jye Chen, Shu-Chien Huang National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University.Taiwan Journal of Formosan Medical AssociationJ Formos Med Assoc 2025; 124: 809-815DOI: 10.1016/j.jfma.2024.09.006 AbstractBackground: To evaluate the association between the pulmonary vein (PV) entry site morphology after total anomalous pulmonary

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A New Variant in the GATA6 Gene Associated with Tracheoesophageal Fistula, Pulmonary Vein Stenosis, and Neonatal Diabetes

Flaminia Pugnaloni, Ludovica Martini, Domenico Umberto De Rose, Francesca Landolfo, Paola Giliberti, Rosario Ruta, Antonio Novelli, Novella Rapini, Fabrizio Barbetti, Alessandra Toscano, Andrea Conforti, Pietro Bagolan, Irma Capolupo, Andrea Dotta “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico. University of Rome “Tor Vergata”. Italy Hormone Research in PaediatricsHorm Res Paediatr 2025;

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Combination Chemotherapy in Severe Pulmonary Vein Stenosis-A Case Series

Gabriel Krivenko, Karen Iacono, David Nykanen, Robyn Keen, Robert Sutphin, Michael Farias University of Central Florida. Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. Boston Children’s Hospital.United States ChildrenChildren 2023; 10: DOI: 10.3390/children10020364 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis results from a proliferative process that leads to the progressive obstruction of venous return to the left atrium. It is often

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Early Experience With Reverse Double Switch Operation for the Borderline Left Heart

Brandi Braud Scully, Eric N. Feins, Wayne Tworetzky, Sunil Ghelani, Rebecca Beroukhim, Pedro J. Del Nido, Sitaram M. Emani Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgerySemin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2024; 36: 67-79DOI: 10.1053/j.semtcvs.2022.09.009 AbstractThis study reviews our early experience with the “reverse” double switch operation (R-DSO) for borderline left

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Tricuspid Valve Blood Cysts Mimicking Thrombus or Vegetation on Echocardiogram in a Neonate

Takato Yamasaki, Rebecca Beroukhim, Stephen Sanders, Chrystalle Katte Carreon Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Mie University Graduate School of Medicine. United States and Japan Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2023; 44: 245-248DOI: 10.1007/s00246-022-02978-x AbstractA 2-month-old male infant, born premature with a birth weight of 865 g, was found to have a tricuspid valve mass mimicking thrombus

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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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