Stenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous Connections

Systemic Embolic Complications of Pulmonary Vein Angioplasty in Children

Jesse J. Esch, Diego Porras, Lisa Bergersen, Kathy J. Jenkins, Audrey C. Marshall Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2015; 36: 1357-1362DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1165-x AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) carries significant morbidity and mortality for affected children, and its management often requires multiple angioplasty procedures. PVS angioplasty can be complicated by systemic embolic […]

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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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Chest radiographic findings in pediatric patients with intraluminal pulmonary vein stenosis

Caitlin E. Mayhew, Edward Y. Lee, Sowmya Balasubramanian, Muhammad Muneeb, Kimberlee Gauvreau, Donald A. Tracy, Kathy J. Jenkins Boston Children’s Hospital.United States Congenital Heart DiseaseCongenit Heart Dis 2014; 9: 151-157DOI: 10.1111/chd.12105 AbstractEarly recognition of pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is crucial for optimizing clinical outcomes. Our goal was to characterize radiographic patterns specific to pediatric patients with

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Pulmonary vein stenosis with Down syndrome: a rare and frequently fatal cause of pulmonary hypertension in infants and children

Srinath Gowda, Deepti Bhat, Zhuang Feng, Chung-Ho Chang, Robert D. Ross The Children’s Hospital of Michigan and Detroit Medical Center.United States Congenital Heart DiseaseCongenit Heart Dis 2014; 9: E90-E97DOI: 10.1111/chd.12088 AbstractDown syndrome (DS) patients are prone to pulmonary hypertension (PHTN) due to various cardiopulmonary causes. However, the association of DS with pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is

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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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Technique of coronary sinus plasty for left pulmonary vein stenosis

David Kalfa, Wyman Lai, Anne Ferris, Usha Krishnan, Emile Bacha Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of New York and Columbia University.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2014; 98: e27-e29DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.03.045 AbstractWe describe a technique of coronary sinus plasty used to treat an infant with compression of the left pulmonary vein between the descending aorta and

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Surgical repair of pulmonary venous stenosis: a word of caution

Kirk R. Kanter, Paul M. Kirshbom, Brian E. Kogon Emory University School of Medicine and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.United States Annals of Thoracic SurgeryAnn Thorac Surg 2014; 98: 1687-1691DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.05.082 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS), both congenital and acquired, is challenging to treat surgically with uncertain long-term results. We reviewed an 11-year surgical experience in

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Perinatal and infant outcomes of prenatal diagnosis of heterotaxy syndrome (asplenia and polysplenia)

Maria C. Escobar-Diaz, Kevin Friedman, Yishay Salem, Gerald R. Marx, Brian T. Kalish, Terra Lafranchi, Rahul H. Rathod, Sitaram Emani, Tal Geva, Wayne Tworetzky Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Tel Aviv University.United States and Israel American Journal of CardiologyAm J Cardiol 2014; 114: 612-617DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.05.042 AbstractPatients with heterotaxy syndrome (HS) have a range of

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Pulmonary hypertension in bronchopulmonary dysplasia: clinical findings, cardiovascular anomalies and outcomes

Maria Jesus del Cerro, Anna Sabate Rotes, Antonio Carton, Lucia Deiros, Montserrat Bret, Malaika Cordeiro, Cristina Verdu, Maria Isabel Barrios, Luis Albajara, Federico Gutierrez-Larraya La Paz Children’s Hospital.Spain Pediatric PulmonologyPediatr Pulmonol 2014; 49: 49-59DOI: 10.1002/ppul.22797 AbstractObjective: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) worsens the prognosis of bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). The following items have not been fully established for PH in

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Proximal pulmonary vein stenosis detection in pediatric patients: value of multiplanar and 3-D VR imaging evaluation

Edward Y. Lee, Kathy J. Jenkins, Muhammad Muneeb, Audrey C. Marshall, Donald A. Tracy, David Zurakowski, Phillip M. Boiselle Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Pediatric RadiologyPediatr Radiol 2013; 43: 929-936DOI: 10.1007/s00247-013-2647-8 AbstractBackground: One of the important benefits of using multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) is its capability to generate high-quality two-dimensional (2-D) multiplanar (MPR) and

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