Age Focus: Pediatric

Scimitar syndrome with vein stenosis in an infant

Fany Corvol, Sébastien Hascoet, Emmanuel Le Bret, Nadia Nathan Sorbonne University. Université Paris-Saclay, Marie-Lannelongue Surgical Centre. Ramsay Santé, Clinique du Sport. Sorbonne University.France British Medical Journal Case ReportsBMJ Case Rep 2024; 17:DOI: 10.1136/bcr-2024-259955 AbstractScimitar syndrome is characterised by right lung hypoplasia and abnormal pulmonary venous return, known as the ‘scimitar vein’. We report the case of an infant […]

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Rare cause of cardiac failure in an infant

Claudio Henriques, Helena Andrade, Antonio Pires Paediatric Hospital.Portugal Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2019; 29: 711-713DOI: 10.1017/S1047951119000428 AbstractCongenital stenosis of the pulmonary veins is a rare condition whose outcome is guarded despite the available treatment options. We report a case of a 6-month-old infant with significant stenosis of all four pulmonary veins. CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of

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A neonatal rat model of pulmonary vein stenosis

Debao Li, Lisheng Qiu, Haifa Hong, Hao Chen, Peibin Zhao, Yingying Xiao, Hao Zhang, Qi Sun, Lincai Ye Shanghai Children’s Medical Center and Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Second Affiliated Hospital and Yuying Children’s Hospital and Wenzhou Medical University. China Cell and BioscienceCell Biosci 2023; 13:DOI: 10.1186/s13578-023-01058-8 AbstractObjectives: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS), one of the most challenging clinical

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Host Factor Vulnerability and Development of Progressive Intraluminal Pulmonary Vein Stenosis after Congenital Heart Disease Surgery

Donna A. Goff, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Pedro J. del Nido, Mark W. Kieran, Stephen J. Roth, Kathy J. Jenkins Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School. Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University.United States Congenital Heart DiseaseCongenit Heart Dis 2009; 4: 86–90DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1747-0803.2009.00272.x AbstractObjective. The aim of this study is to explore the risk factors for progressive intraluminal

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Anomalous pulmonary venous connections and related anomalies: nomenclature, embryology, anatomy, and morphology

Michael J. Walsh, Ross M. Ungerleider, Vera D. Aiello, Diane Spicer, Jorge M. Giroud Brenner Children’s Hospital and Wake Forest University Medical Center. Universidade de São Paulo. Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital.United States and Brazil World Journal of Pediatric and Congenital Heart SurgeryWorld J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg 2013; 4: 30-43DOI: 10.1177/2150135112458439 AbstractThis article combines material

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Mixed type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection with hemi-pulmonary vein atresia

Yasuhisa Shimazaki, Susumu Nakano, Hiroshi Kato, Shigeaki Ohtake, Seiichiro Ikawa, Takuya Miura, Tetuya Sano, Jun Arisawa, Hikaru Matsuda Osaka University Medical School.Japan Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1993; 56: 1399-1401DOI: 10.1016/0003-4975(93)90694-d AbstractThis reports a successfully corrected case of an 8-day-old baby who had a rare mixed type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection in which

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Common pulmonary vein atresia: a successfully corrected case

Yasuhisa Shimazaki, T. Yagihara, T. Nakada, O. Hirose, H. Sugimoto Osaka University Medical School.Japan Journal of Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Cardiovasc Surg 1987; 28: 395-397DOI: Not Available AbstractCommon pulmonary vein atresia is a rare congenital cardiac anomaly in which there is no communication between the confluence of the pulmonary veins and the heart or the major systemic

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Spontaneous pneumothorax in common pulmonary vein atresia

Joan K. Sharda, Lawrence E. Kurlandsky, Samuel L. Lacina, Leonard L. Radecki Butterworth Hospital.United States Journal of PerinatologyJ Perinatol 1990; 10: 70-74DOI: Not Available AbstractCommon pulmonary vein atresia is a rare congenital anomaly that is rapidly fatal unless immediately recognized and corrected by surgical intervention. This article describes three neonates who died with the diagnosis

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Atresia of the common pulmonary vein

Youcef Sadou, Matteo Ciuffreda, Giancarlo Crupi Ospedali Riuniti di Bergamo.Italy Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2006; 16: 398-400DOI: 10.1017/S1047951106000199 AbstractA newborn girl with atresia of the common pulmonary vein, presented immediately after birth with severe cyanosis and acidosis. The diagnosis of totally obstructed total pulmonary venous return was made by cross-sectional echocardiography. Subsequent cardiac catheterization failed

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Common pulmonary vein atresia: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge

Carlos Mas, Andrew Cochrane, Samuel Menahem, Brodie Knight Royal Children’s Hospital. Women’s and Children’s Hospital.Australia Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2000; 21: 490-492DOI: 10.1007/s002460010119 AbstractFollowing Doppler echocardiographic evaluation, a 16 hour-old infant underwent successful surgical repair of common pulmonary vein atresia. Investigations for prolonged postoperative ventilatory assistance, including cardiac catheterization and computerized tomography, led to a clinical diagnosis

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