Age Focus: Pediatric

Valsartan to Prevent Acquired Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in Pediatric Patients After Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection Surgery

Jin Shentu, Mingjie Zhang, Zhuoming Xu, Chen Wen, Hao Zhang, Zhongqun Zhu, Huiwen Chen, Guocheng Shi Shanghai Children’s Medical Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University.China Journal of the American Heart AssociationJ Am Heart Assoc 2025; 14:DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.124.036911 AbstractBackground: Recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) following surgical repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection is associated with poor prognosis. Preclinical studies have shown that use of an angiotensin receptor blocker can attenuate intimal hyperplasia;

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Comparison of morbidity and mortality outcomes of conventional and sutureless repair techniques in children with isolated total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Kübra Gözacik Karakoc, Batuhan Yazici, Hacer Kamali, Okan Yildiz, Gökhan Karakoc, Sertac Haydin, Ismihan Selen Onan Istanbul Mehmet Akif Ersoy Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery Training and Research Hospital. Model Statistics CRO and Clinical Trials Center.Turkey Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2025; DOI: 10.1017/S1047951124036679 AbstractObjectives: The sutureless repair technique has been favoured due to its purported reduction in

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Balloon Dilation Technique Influences Stent Shortening and Intentional Stent Fracture During Overexpansion of Drug-Eluting Stents: A Bench-Testing Study

Mudit Gupta, Ella B. Leeth, Yuval Barak-Corren, Ari J. Gartenberg, Elizabeth Silvestro, Michael L. O’Byrne, Ryan Callahan Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. Akron Children’s Hospital and Northeast Ohio Medical University.United States Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2025;DOI: 10.1002/ccd.31428 AbstractBackground and aims: Drug-eluting stents (DES) are not designed for overexpansion

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Risk Assessment and Monitoring of Chronic Pulmonary Hypertension in Premature Infants

Philip T. Levy, Amish Jain, Hythem Nawaytou, David Teitel, Roberta Keller, Jeffery Fineman, Robin Steinhorn, Steven H. Abman, Patrick J. McNamara, for the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet) Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. University of Toronto and Mount Sinai Hospital. University of California, San Francisco. Children’s National Health System. University of Colorado Anschutz

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Evaluation and Management of Pulmonary Hypertension in Children with Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia

Usha Krishnan, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Ian Adatia, Eric D. Austin, Mary P. Mullen, Rachel K. Hopper, Brian Hanna, Lew Romer, Roberta L. Keller, Jeffrey Fineman, Robin Steinhorn, John P. Kinsella, D. Dunbar Ivy, Erika Berman Rosenzweig, Usha Raj, Tilman Humpl, Steven H. Abman, for the Pediatric Pulmonary Hypertension Network (PPHNet) Columbia University Medical Center and

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Compression of pulmonary veins between the left atrium and the descending aorta

Clare P. O’Donnell, James E. Lock, Andrew J. Powell, Stanton B. Perry Children’s Hospital, Boston.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 2003; 91: 248-251DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9149(02)03120-x AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins: Other CategoriesDiagnostic Testing. Invasive Year of Publication: 2003 Age Focus: Pediatric Article Type: Retrospective

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Acquired stenosis of normally connected pulmonary veins

Shanta Chakrabarti, Ralph Mittal, James P. Gnanapragasam, Robin P. Martin Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.United Kingdom Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2007; 17: 322-327DOI: 10.1017/S1047951107000546 AbstractPulmonary venous stenosis has been a challenge to paediatric cardiologists and surgeons. In spite of significant improvements in the management and outcome of various congenital cardiac problems, the prognosis of this

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Indications for cardiac catheterization and intervention in pediatric cardiac disease: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association

Timothy F. Feltes, Emile Bacha, Robert H. Beekman III, John P. Cheatham, Jeffrey A. Feinstein, Antoinette S. Gomes, Ziyad M. Hijazi, Frank F. Ing, Michael de Moor, W. Robert Morrow, Charles E. Mullins, Kathryn A. Taubert, Evan M. Zahn, on behalf of the American Heart Association Congenital Cardiac Defects Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular

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Congenital stenosis of individual pulmonary veins: clinical spectrum and unsuccessful treatment by transvenous balloon dilation

David J. Driscoll, Peter S. Hesslein, Charles E. Mullin Baylor College of Medicine and the Texas Heart Institute.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1982; 49: 1767-1772DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(82)90257-0 AbstractCongenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins is a rare but frequently lethal congenital cardiac abnormality. Eight patients with this malformation were diagnosed, evaluated and treated. All eight

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Mortality Patterns in Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Insights Into Right Ventricular Systolic Pressure Associations

Daiji Takajo, Paul J. Critser, Michelle Cash, Melissa Magness, Russel Hirsch Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati.United States Journal of the American Heart AssociationJ Am Heart Assoc 2025;DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.124.037908 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis in children is associated with a poor prognosis. However, the cause and risk factors for mortality remain uncertain.Methods: This retrospective, single-center study

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