Age Focus: Pediatric

Transhepatic portal vein access for balloon dilation of right upper pulmonary vein stenosis following infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage repair

Aphrodite Tzifa, Irfan Ahmed, Eric Rosenthal Evelina Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital.United Kingdom Catheterization and Cardiovascular InterventionsCatheter Cardiovasc Interv 2011; 78: 698-701DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22906 AbstractTranshepatic cardiac catheterization is now a well-established alternative when conventional venous routes for cardiac access have failed. Some operators prefer this route even routinely, due to the direct access that […]

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Surgical management of post-repair pulmonary vein stenosis

Edward J. Hickey, Christopher A. Caldarone Hospital for Sick Children.Canada Seminars in Thoracic and Gardiovascular Surgery PediatricsSemin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr 2011; 14: 101-108DOI: 10.1053/j.pcsu.2011.01.007 AbstractObstructed pulmonary venous drainage – either in association with total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage, congenital stenosis, or post-repair stenosis – is associated with poor outcome. Post-repair stenosis typically involves fibrotic scar

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Imaging of pulmonary vein stenosis using multidimensional phase contrast magnetic resonance imaging (4-dimensional flow)

Israel Valverde, Owen Miller, Phillipp Beerbaum, Gerald Greil Evelina Children’s Hospital and Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust.United Kingdom Journal of the American College of CardiologyJ Am Coll Cardiol 2011; 58: e3DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2010.10.067 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins Following Surgical Repair of Anomalous Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsDiagnostic Testing. Noninvasive Year of Publication:

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Scimitar syndrome: a European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA) multicentric study

Vladimiro L. Vida, Massimo A. Padalino, Giovanna Boccuzzo, Erjon Tarja, Hakan Berggren, Thierry Carrel, Sertaç Çiçek, Giancarlo Crupi, Duccio Di Carlo, Roberto Di Donato, José Fragata, Mark Hazekamp, Viktor Hraska, Bohdan Maruszewski, Dominique Metras, Marco Pozzi, Rene Pretre, Jean Rubay, Heikki Sairanen, George Sarris, Christian Schreiber, Bart Meyns, Tomas Tlaskal, Andreas Urban, Gaetano Thiene, Giovanni

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The role of surgical therapy for pulmonary vein atresia in childhood

Jeffrey Shuhaiber, Maliha Rehman, Kathy Jenkins, Francis Fynn-Thompson, Emile Bacha Cincinnati Childrens Hospital. Boston Children’s Hospital.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2011; 32: 639-645DOI: 10.1007/s00246-011-9942-7 AbstractThe outcome for children with pulmonary vein atresia has been historically poor. This report describes clinical outcomes after surgical treatment of primary and secondary pulmonary vein atresia. All patients undergoing surgery for

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Total cavopulmonary connection with straight conduit for apicocaval juxtaposition

Takahiro Hisaoka, Takeshi Hiramatsu, Yoshitaka Okamura Wakayama Medical University.Japan General Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryGen Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2009; 57: 307-309DOI: 10.1007/s11748-008-0348-2 AbstractIf the heart is malpositioned with apicocaval juxtaposition (ACJ), what constitutes the ideal course for the conduit pathway of a total cavopulmonary connection must be considered. When the conduit is positioned between the inferior vena

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Pulmonary Vein Stenosis Diagnosed After Failure to Wean from Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation

An N. Massaro, Joshua P. Kanter, Louis Scavo, Billie L. Short Children’s National Medical Center.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2008; 29: 238-240DOI: 10.1007/s00246-007-9102-2 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsDiagnostic Testing. Invasive Year of Publication: 2008 Age Focus: Pediatric Article Type: Case Reports or Retrospective Observations in Small Groups of Patients (≤10

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Importance of totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection and postoperative pulmonary vein stenosis in outcomes of heterotaxy syndrome

Susan R. Foerster, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Doff B. McElhinney, Tal Geva Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2008; 29: 536-544DOI: 10.1007/s00246-007-9128-5 AbstractHistorically, outcomes of patients with heterotaxy syndrome and congenital heart disease have been poor. Published series include patients treated over many decades or focus on specific patient/operative subgroups. This study was

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Totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection directly to the superior caval vein

Alessandro Giamberti, John E. Deanfield, Robert H. Anderson, Marc R. de Leval Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust. United Kingdom European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic SurgeryEur J Cardiothorac Surg 2002; 21: 474-477DOI: 10.1016/s1010-7940(01)01162-9 AbstractObjective: Totally anomalous pulmonary venous connection directly to the superior caval vein is unusual. It is frequently associated with major congenital heart defects

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Congenital pulmonary vein stenosis associated with cor triatriatum

Masayoshi Ito, Seiya Kikuchi, Yoshikazu, Hachiro, MD, Tomio Abe Sapporo Medical University School of Medicine.Japan Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2001; 71: 722-723DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(00)02346-8 AbstractWe report an 11-year-old boy who underwent surgical correction for stenosis of the right and left lower pulmonary veins at their junction with the left atrium and associated cor triatriatum. The

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