Pulmonary Hypertension Associated with Stenosis or Atresia of Pulmonary Veins

Alterations in elastin and collagen related to the mechanism of progressive pulmonary venous obstruction in a piglet model. A hemodynamic, ultrastructural, and biochemical study

Jay I. LaBourene, John G. Coles, Dorothy J. Johnson, Arun Mehra, Fred W. Keeley, Marlene Rabinovitch Hospital for Sick Children.Canada Circulation ResearchCirc Res 1990; 66: 438-456DOI: 10.1161/01.res.66.2.438 AbstractWe created an animal model to understand better the pathogenesis and underlying mechanism of progressive central pulmonary venous (PV) obstruction, a condition not amenable to current therapy. Twenty piglets […]

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Outcome predictors and implications for management of scimitar syndrome

Susan M. Dusenbery, Tal Geva, Anna Seale, Anne Marie Valente, Jing Zhou, Laureen Sena, Robert L. Geggel Boston Children’s Hospital.United States American Heart JournalAm Heart J 2013; 165: 770-777DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2013.01.016 AbstractBackground: Scimitar syndrome is a rare congenital anomaly. We evaluated risk factors for postoperative pulmonary vein stenosis or death and predictive factors for survival without scimitar vein surgery in patients with scimitar syndrome.Methods: The records of patients with scimitar

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Unilateral membranous pulmonary venous occlusion, pulmonary hypertension, and patent ductus arteriosus

Donald Emslie-Smith, Ian G. W. Hill, Kenneth G. Lowe University of St. Andrews.United Kingdom British Heart Journal (Heart)Brit Heart J 1955; 17: 79-84DOI: 10.1136/hrt.17.1.79 AbstractNo Abstract Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsPulmonary Hypertension Associated with Stenosis or Atresia of Pulmonary VeinsPulmonary Venous Pathology Year of Publication: 1955 Age Focus: Pediatric Article Type: Case

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Unilateral Pulmonary Arteriosclerosis Unusual Fibrous Connective Tissue Growth Associated; Review of Literature and Discussion of Possible Physiological Mechanisms Involved in These Changes

Scott R. Inkley, George R. Abbott Western Reserve University and University Hospitals of Cleveland.United States Journal of the American Medical Association Internal MedicineJAMA Int Med 1961; 108: 903-915https://doi:10.1001/archinte.1961.03620120087012 AbstractAn extensive fibrous connective tissue proliferation suggestive of retroperitoneal fibrosis or chronic mediastinitis is reported here. Aside from being the most extensive involvement that we can find

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Multilobar pulmonary venous obstruction with pulmonary hypertension; protective arterial lesions in the involved lobes

Jesse E. Edwards, Howard B. Burchell Mayo ClinicUnited States American Medical Association Archives of Internal MedicineAMA Arch Intern Med 1951; 87: 372-378.DOI: 10.1001/archinte.1951.03810030045004 AbstractIn the presence of structural obstruction to the free flow of blood from the lungs to the left ventricle, such as in classic mitral stenosis, proliferative thickening of the walls of the small arteries

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Significance of the Pulmonary Vascular Bed in Congenital Heart Disease: V. Lesions of the Left Side of the Heart Causing Obstruction of the Pulmonary Venous Return

Charlotte Ferencz, J. Francis Dammann Johns Hopkins University and Hospital. University of Virginia.United States CirculationCirculation 1957; 16:1046-1056DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.16.6.1046 AbstractA microscopic study was made of the lungs of 18 patients with congenital malformations of the heart in which there was obstruction of pulmonary venous drainage. Alterations in various components of the pulmonary vascular bed and of the

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Congenital Causes of Pulmonary Venous Obstruction

Russell V. Lucas Jr., Ray C. Anderson, Kurt Amplatz, Paul Adams Jr., Jesse E. Edwards  University of Minnesota. West Virginia University.United States Pediatric Clinics of North AmericaPediatr Clin North Am 1963; 10: 781-836DOI: 10.1016/s0031-3955(16)31451-1 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsStenosis or Obstruction of Pulmonary Veins: Other CategoriesSymptoms and Quality of Life Associated with Pulmonary Venous ObstructionPulmonary Venous Pathology Year of Publication: 1963

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The pulmonary pressures in pulmonary venous obstruction

Merritt C. Warren, Philip M. Benaron, Norman J. Sissman Stanford University School of Medicine.United States CirculationCirculation 1968; 38: 1127-1135DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.38.6.1127 AbstractThe contour of the pulmonary artery wedge pressure tracing in a case of pulmonary venous obstruction was unique and may be diagnostic. Wedged pressures were obtained in both a pulmonary artery and a pulmonary vein on

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Extrapulmonic stenosis of the pulmonary veins

Jay Bernstein, Anthony C. Nolke, Joseph O. Reed Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Wayne State University College of Medicine.United States CirculationCirculation 1959; 19: 891-897DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.19.6.891 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsPulmonary Hypertension Associated with Stenosis or Atresia of Pulmonary VeinsSymptoms and Quality of Life Associated with Pulmonary Venous ObstructionLength of Life

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Congenital stenosis of individual pulmonary veins

John D. Shone, Kurt Amplatz, Ray C. Anderson, Paul Adams Jr, Jesse E. Edwards Charles T. Miller Hospital and University of Minnesota.United States CirculationCirculation 1962; 26: 574-581DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.26.4.574 AbstractAbstract Not Available CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous ConnectionsPulmonary Hypertension Associated with Stenosis or Atresia of Pulmonary VeinsDiagnostic Testing. InvasivePulmonary Venous Pathology Year of Publication: 1962

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