Pulmonary Venous Pathology

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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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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Anomalies of the pulmonary veins

Ahmed Nakib, James H. Moller, Vladimir I. Kanjuh, Jesse E. Edwards University of Minnesota and Charles T. Miller Hospital.United States American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 1967; 20: 77-90DOI: 10.1016/0002-9149(67)90113-0 AbstractEighty pathologic specimens with anomalies of pulmonary veins were reviewed for the type of lesions encountered. These were classified on an anatomic basis into five groups,

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Occlusion of pulmonary veins, “mitral” insufficiency, and ventricular septal defect. Functional resemblance to ventricular aneurysm

Anton E. Becker, Mies J. Becker, Jesse E. Edwards Charles T. Miller Hospital and the University of Minnesota.United States American Journal of Diseases of ChildrenAm J Dis Child 1970; 120: 557-559DOI: 10.1001/archpedi.1970.02100110105015 AbstractA case of fetal cardiac failure in a stillborn infant was caused by the following anatomic abnormalities: (1) occlusion of the major pulmonary veins,

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Pulmonary vein stenosis and the pathophysiology of “upstream” pulmonary veins

Hideyuki Kato, Yaqin Yana Fu, Jiaquan Zhu, Shabana Aafaqi, Otto Rahkonen, Cameron Slorach, Alexandra Traister, Chung Ho Leung, David Chiasson, Luc Mertens, Lee Benson, Richard D. Weisel, Boris Hinz, Jason T. Maynes, John G. Coles, Christopher A. Caldarone Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Toronto General Hospital.Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ

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An infant with primary pulmonary vein stenosis, associated with fatal occlusion of intraparenchymal small pulmonary veins

Takanari Fujii, Hideshi Tomita, Hiroaki Kise, Kazuto Fujimoto, Kozue Kobayashi, Yoshitaka Watanabe, Takeshi Yamazaki, Takeshi Shimizu, Shunsuke Sakurai, Satoshi Hibino, Junya Iwasaki, Takashi Soga, Shigeru Uemura, Kazuo Itabashi, Shigeo Yamaki Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital. Japanese Research Institute of Pulmonary Vasculature.Japan Journal of Cardiology CasesJ Cardiol Cases 2013; 9: 3-7DOI: 10.1016/j.jccase.2013.08.013 AbstractPrimary pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS)

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Pulmonary vein stenosis: expression of receptor tyrosine kinases by lesional cells

Wolfram F. J. Riedlinger, Amy L. Juraszek, Kathy J. Jenkins, Alan W. Nugent, Sowmya Balasubramanian, Monica L. Calicchio, Mark W. Kieran, Tucker Collins Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School.United States Cardiovascular PathologyCardiovasc Pathol 2006; 15: 91-99DOI: 10.1016/j.carpath.2005.11.006 AbstractBackground: Primary pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a progressive disorder of infants. Although catheter based intervention and chemotherapy are

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Pulmonary vein and atrial wall pathology in human total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Yvonne L. Douglas, Monique R. M. Jongbloed, Wietske C. E. den Hartog, Margot M. Bartelings, Ad J. J. Bogers, Tjark Ebels, Marco C. DeRuiter, Adriana C. Gittenberger-de Groot University Medical Center Groningen and University of Groningen.Netherlands International Journal of CardiologyInt J Cardiol 2009; 134: 302-312DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.11.098 AbstractBackground: Normally, the inside of the left atrial (LA) body and

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Losartan ameliorates “upstream” pulmonary vein vasculopathy in a piglet model of pulmonary vein stenosis

Jiaquan Zhu, HarukiIde, Yaqin Yana Fu, Anouk-Martine Teichert, Hideyuki Kato, Richard D. Weisel, Jason T. Maynes, John G. Coles, Christopher A. Caldarone The Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto. Toronto General Hospital.Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2014; 148: 2550-2557DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.07.050 AbstractObjectives: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a relentless disease with

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Drug-eluting stents ameliorate pulmonary vein stenotic changes in pigs in vivo

Takeshi Furukawa, Masahiko Kishiro, Hideo Fukunaga, Masahiro Ohtsuki, Ken Takahashi, Katsumi Akimoto, Toshiaki Shimizu, Shiori Kawasaki, Toshio Kumasaka Juntendo University School of Medicine.Japan Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2010; 31: 773-779DOI: 10.1007/s00246-010-9695-8 AbstractThe outcome of stent implantation for pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) in children remains poor. Several reports describe placing drug-eluting stents to treat PVS, but their effectiveness

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