Article Type: Retrospective Observational Cohort Studies (>10 patients)

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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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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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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Individual Pulmonary Veins Outgrow Somatic Growth After Primary Sutureless Repair for Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Drainage

Hyun-Jin Jung, Ji Hyun Bang, Chun-Soo Park, Jeong-Jun Park, Yu-Mi Im, Tae-Jin Yun Asan Medical Center and University of Ulsan College of Medicine. Seoul Women’s College of Nursing.Republic of Korea Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2016; 37: 290-294DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1276-4 AbstractIndications of sutureless repair (SR) for pulmonary vein anomalies have evolved from re-operational SR for pulmonary vein stenosis after

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Evaluation of Primary Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in Children: Comparison of Radionuclide Perfusion Lung Scan and Angiography

Laura A. Drubach, Kathy J. Jenkins, Catherine Stamoulis, Edwin L. Palmer III, Edward Y. Lee Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Massachusetts General Hospital.United States American Journal of RoentgenologyAm J Roentgeol 2015; 205: 873-877DOI: 10.2214/AJR.14.13581 AbstractObjective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility of radionuclide perfusion lung scanning in the evaluation of primary

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