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

Surgical outcomes of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection repair: a 22-year experience

Massimo A. Padalino, Giacomo Cavalli, Marco De Franceschi, Daniela Mancuso, Nocola Maschietto, Vladimiro Vida, Ornella Milanesi, Giovanni Stellin University of Padova Medical School.Italy Journal of Cardiac SurgeryJ Card Surg 2014; 29: 678-685DOI: 10.1111/jocs.12399 AbstractBackground: Total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a rare congenital heart disease (CHD), whose surgical repair is associated with high mortality and reoperation […]

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Primary pulmonary vein stenosis: the impact of sutureless repair on survival

Nicola Viola, Abdullah A. Alghamdi, Donald G. Perrin, Gregory J. Wilson, John G. Coles, Christopher A. Caldarone Southampton University Hospital. Hospital for Sick Children.United Kingdom and Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2011; 142: 344-350DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.12.004 AbstractBackground: Primary pulmonary vein stenosis is often associated with relentless restenosis and early death. During the last

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Outcomes after surgical treatment of children with partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Bahaaldin Alsoufi, Sally Cai, Glen S. Van Arsdell, William G. Williams, Christopher A. Caldarone, John G. Coles Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2007; 84: 2020-2026DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.05.046 AbstractBackground: We explore early results and time-related morbidity after surgical repair of partial anomalous pulmonary venous connection (PAPVC) at our institution.Methods: Between 1982

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Factors associated with mortality and reoperation in 377 children with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection

Tara Karamlou, Rebecca Gurofsky, Eisar Al Sukhni, John G. Coles, William G. Williams, Christopher A. Caldarone, Glen S. Van Arsdell, Brian W. McCrindle University of Toronto and Hospital for Sick Children.Canada CirculationCirculation 2007; 115: 1591-1598DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.106.635441 AbstractBackground: We sought to determine era-specific changes in the incidence of mortality and reoperation in children with total anomalous pulmonary venous

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Conventional and sutureless techniques for management of the pulmonary veins: Evolution of indications from postrepair pulmonary vein stenosis to primary pulmonary vein anomalies

Tae-Jin Yun, John G. Coles, Igor E. Konstantinov, Osman O. Al-Radi, Rachel M. Wald, Vitor Guerra, Nilto C. de Oliveira, Glen S. Van Arsdell, William G. Williams, Jeffrey Smallhorn, Christopher A. Caldarone Hospital for Sick Children and University of Toronto.Canada Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2005; 129: 167-174DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.08.043 AbstractObjective: We have previously

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Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. Seventeen-year surgical experience

R. K. Lamb, S. A. Qureshi, J. L. Wilkinson, R. Arnold, C. R. West, D. I. Hamilton Royal Liverpool Children’s Hospital.United Kingdom Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 1988; 96: 368-375DOI: Not Available AbstractBetween 1968 and 1985, 80 children underwent correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage. There were 47 boys and

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Modified superior approach for repair of supracardiac and mixed total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage

Alain Serraf, Emré Belli, Danie lRoux, Miguel Sousa-Uva, Francois Lacour-Gayet, Claude Planché Marie-Lannelongue Hospital.France Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 1998; 65: 1391-1393DOI: 10.1016/s0003-4975(98)00141-6 AbstractBackground: The main goal in the surgical repair of total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage is to reestablish a wide patent connection between the common pulmonary vein and the left atrium. Several techniques have

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Surgical management of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection. Thirty-year trends

Ko Bando, Mark W. Turrentine, Gregory J. Ensing, K. Sun, Thomas G. Sharp Y. Sekine, Donald A. Girod, John W. Brown James W. Riley Hospital for Children.United States CirculationCirculation 1996; 94(9 Suppl): II12-II16DOI: Not Available AbstractBackground: Reports of surgical correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) over the past 30 years indicate a general improvement

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Long-term outcomes of total correction for isolated total anomalous pulmonary venous connection: lessons from 50-years’ experience

Takahiko Sakamoto, Mitsugi Nagashima, Kentarou Umezu, Ryogo Houki, Jin Ikarashi, Junko Katagiri, Kenji Yamazaki The Heart Institute of Japan and Tokyo Women’s Medical University.Japan Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic SurgeryInteract Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2018; 27: 20-26DOI: 10.1093/icvts/ivy034 AbstractObjectives: Isolated total anomalous pulmonary venous connection (TAPVC) is a relatively rare congenital cardiac defect, while pulmonary venous obstruction (PVO) is

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Correction of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection of the cardiac type

R. Aeba, T. Katogi, S. Takeuchi, S. Kawada Keio University.Japan Cardiovascular SurgeryCardiovasc Surg 1998; 6: 50-57DOI: 10.1016/s0967-2109(97)00112-9 AbstractSurgical treatment of the cardiac type of total anomalous pulmonary venous connection requires special techniques. The treatment and outcome in 17 consecutive patients who had undergone primary repairs of the cardiac type between 1965 and 1996 were reviewed. The

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