Age Focus: Pediatric

Sutureless pericardial marsupialization for the repair of congenital right pulmonary veins atresia

Yoshie Ochiai, Yusuke Ando, Shigehiko Tokunaga, Jun Muneuchi Japan Community Health Care Organization (JCHO) and Kyushu Hospital.Japan Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic SurgeryInteract Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2018; 27: 151-152DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivy024 AbstractWe present a very rare case of isolated right pulmonary veins atresia in a 4-year-old girl. As the presence of a pulsatile blind pulmonary venous confluence adjacent […]

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Primary Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Outcomes, Risk Factors, and Severity Score in a Multicentric Study

David Kalfa, Emre Belli, Emile Bacha, Duccio di Carlo, Martin Kostolny, Jukka Salminen, Matej Nosal, Alain Poncelet, Jurgen Horer, Hakan Berggren, Illya Yemets, Mark Hazekamp, Bohdan Maruszewski, George Sarris, Marco Pozzi, Tjark Ebels, Francois Lacour-Gayet for the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York-Presbyterian and Columbia University Medical Center. Marie

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Paucicellular Fibrointimal Proliferation Characterizes Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Clinicopathologic Analysis of 213 Samples From 97 Patients

Alexandra E. Kovach, Philip M. Magcalas, Christina Ireland, Kerry McEnany, Andre M. Oliveira, Mark W. Kieran, Christopher W. Baird, Kathy Jenkins, MD, Sara O. Vargas Boston Children’s Hospital. Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Mayo Clinic.United States American Journal of Surgical PathologyAm J Surg Pathol 2017; 41: 1198-1204DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0000000000000892 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a luminal narrowing of

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Reintervention Is Associated With Improved Survival in Pediatric Patients With Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Melinda J. Cory, Yinn K. Ooi, Michael S. Kelleman, Robert N. Vincent, Dennis W. Kim, Christopher J. Petit Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Emory University School of Medicine.United States Journal of the American College of Cardiology Cardiovascular InterventionsJACC Cardiovasc Interv 2017; 10: 1788-1798DOI: 10.1016/j.jcin.2017.05.052 AbstractObjectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate survival following catheter intervention

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Persistent Oxygen Requirement beyond Prematurity: A Case of Acquired Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Tyler A. Fick, Bernadette Richards , Carl H. Backes, Molly K. Ball Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and Nationwide Children’s Hospital.United States Care Reports in PediatricsCase Rep Pediatr 2017;DOI: 10.1155/2017/3106871 AbstractAcquired pulmonary vein stenosis is a rare cardiac defect and diagnosis can often be challenging, as many cases present with refractory or prolonged oxygen requirement

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Selective pulmonary artery occlusion to treat hemoptysis associated with pulmonary venous obstruction

Melissa S. W. Yamauchi, Mary Hunt Martin, Harlan R. Muntz, Ronald W. Day University of Utah and Primary Children’s Hospital.United States Respiratory Medicine Case ReportsRespir Med Case Rep 2017; 22: 280-282DOI: 10.1016/j.rmcr.2017.10.005 AbstractHemoptysis may occur in patients with pulmonary venous obstruction and prominent decompressing vessels in the airways adjacent to the affected pulmonary veins. The options

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Lung Pathology in Pediatric Pulmonary Vein Stenosis

Jennifer E. Pogoriler, Thomas J. Kulik, Alicia M. Casey, Christopher W. Baird, Mary P. Mullen, Kathy J. Jenkins, Sara O. Vargas Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Pediatric and Developmental PathologyPediatr Develop Pathol 2016; 19: 219-229DOI: 10.2350/15-07-1670-OA.1 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis is a rare progressive narrowing of the extrapulmonary pulmonary veins, presenting predominantly in infancy

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Congenital Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: Encouraging Mid-term Outcome

Pradeepkumar Charlagorla, David Becerra, Parth M. Patel, Mark Hoyer, Robert K. Darragh Riley Hospital for Children and Indiana University.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2016; 37: 125-130DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1249-7 AbstractCongenital pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare entity with limited outcome literature. Multiple interventional approaches have evolved including surgical and catheterization techniques. Our objective is to report our

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Pulmonary Hypertension in the Preterm Infant with Chronic Lung Disease can be Caused by Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: A Must-Know Entity

Daniela Laux, Marie-Amelie Rocchisani, Younes Boudjemline, Marielle Gouton, Damien Bonnet, Caroline Ovaert Centre de Référence Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes-M3C-CCML, Centre Chirurgical Marie Lannelongue. Hôpital La Timone- Enfants.France Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2016; 7(2):313-321DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1279-1 AbstractPulmonary hypertension (PHT) in the preterm infant is frequently due to chronic lung disease. Rarely, PHT can be caused by pulmonary vein (PV)

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Surgical approaches to pulmonary vein stenosis in pediatric heart transplant recipients: Opportunity for success in a difficult situation

Emilie Jean-St-Michel, Osami Honjo, Cedric Manlhiot, Brian W. McCrindle, Anne I. Dipchand The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto, Toronto.Canada Journal of Heart and Lung TransplantationJ Heart Lung Transplant 2016; 35: 1135-1137DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2016.06.016 AbstractNo Abstract Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Heart or Lung TransplantationSurgical Interventions for Pulmonary Venous Obstruction After the

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