Stenosis or Obstruction of Normal Pulmonary Venous Connections

Prematurity and Pulmonary Vein Stenosis: The Role of Parenchymal Lung Disease and Pulmonary Vascular Disease

Shilpa Vyas-Read, Nidhy P. Varghese, Divya Suthar, Carl Backes, Satyan Lakshminrusimha, Christopher J. Petit, Philip T. Levy Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital. Ohio State University and Nationwide Children’s Hospital. University of California Davis. Harvard University and Boston Children’s Hospital.United States Children (Basel)Children 2022; 9: 713DOI: 10.3390/children9050713 […]

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Management of Complex Pulmonary Vein Stenosis at Altitude Combining Comprehensive Percutaneous Interventional Treatment with Sirolimus, Pulmonary Hypertension Medications and Intraluminal Imaging with Optical Coherence Tomography

Michael J. Shorofsky, Gareth J. Morgan, Ernesto Mejia, Salvador A. Rodriguez, Megan Greene, Paige Sheaks, Dunbar Ivy, Jenny E. Zablah University of Colorado and Children’s Hospital Colorado.United States Pediatric CardiologyPediatr Cardiol 2023; Online ahead of printDOI: 10.1007/s00246-023-03102-3 AbstractBackground: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a growing problem for the pediatric congenital heart population. Sirolimus has previously been shown

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Pulmonary Vein Atresia: Feasibility of Initial Recanalization Attempts with Subsequent Follow-up

Varun Aggarwal, Gary E. Stapleton, Lindsay F. Eilers, Srinath Gowda, Manish Bansal, Athar M. Qureshi, Melissa K. Webb, Asra Khan, Henri Justino Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s HospitalUnited States Current Problems in CardiologyCurr Probl Cardiol 2023; 48DOI: 10.1016/j.cpcardiol.2022.101463 AbstractPulmonary vein atresia (PVA) may lead to pulmonary hypertension, cardiac failure, and death. Transcatheter or surgical treatments have rarely been offered to this population because of perceived poor outcomes. We describe single center

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Association between pulmonary vein stenosis and necrotizing enterocolitis or gastrointestinal pathology: A case-control study

Jennifer Duchon, Christiana Farkouh‑Karoleski, Dominique D. Bailey, Usha S. Krishnan Bronx Care Hospital System. Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Valley Health System.United States Annals of Pediatric CardiologyAnn Pediatr Cardiol 2022; 15: 13-19DOI: 10.4103/apc.apc_210_21 AbstractObjective: Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is an emerging cause of pulmonary hypertension in preterm infants. It is an often lethal condition with poor long.term

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Doppler Echocardiographic Features of Pulmonary Vein Stenosis in Ex-Preterm Children

Yalin Lin, Alena K. Amin, Roberta L. Keller, David F. Teitel, Hythem M. Nawaytou University of California, San Francisco.United States Journal of the American Society of EchocardiographyJ Am Soc Echocardiogr 2022; 35: 435-442DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2021.12.015 AbstractBackground: Echocardiography is used to screen for the presence of pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) in ex-preterm infants and children. However, there are no

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Computed tomographic parenchymal lung findings in premature infants with pulmonary vein stenosis

Barry O’Callaghan, Jenny E. Zablah, Jason P. Weinman, Erin K. Englund, Gareth J. Morgan, D. Dunbar Ivy, Benjamin S. Frank, David Andrew Mong, LaDonna J. Malone, Lorna P. Browne Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora and University of Colorado Medical SchoolUnited States Pediatric RadiologyPediatr Radiol 2023;DOI: 10.1007/s00247-023-05673-y AbstractBackground: Developmental pulmonary vein pulmonary vein stenosis in the setting of prematurity

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Partially unroofed coronary sinus in an infant with pulmonary vein stenosis: mixed blessing

Bassel Mohammad Nijres, Johua K. Stopak, Kaitlin Carr, Osamah Aldoss University of Iowa Stead Family Children’s Hospital.United States Cardiology in the YoungCardiol Young 2023; 33: 490-492DOI: 10.1017/S1047951122002050 AbstractTranscatheter intervention on the pulmonary vein often requires performing transseptal puncture, which is a risky procedure. We describe a rare association of a partially unroofed coronary sinus with pulmonary

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Cardiac surgical outcomes of patients with heterotaxy syndrome

Manan H. Desai, Nicolle M. Ceneri, Zaenab Dhari, Aybala Tongut, Mahmut Ozturk, Steven J. Staffa, David Zurakowski, David Schidlow, Pranava Sinha, Richard A. Jonas, Can Yerebakan Children’s National Hospital and George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery OpenJTCVS Open

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Pulmonary vein stenosis: Treatment and challenges

Rachel D. Vanderlaan, Jonathan Rome, Russel Hirsch, Dunbar Ivy, Christopher A. CaldaroneHospital for Sick Children. Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. Children’s Hospital Colorado. Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.Canada and United States Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular SurgeryJ Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2021; 161: 2169-2176DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.05.117 AbstractNo Abstract CategoryStenosis or Obstruction of Normal

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The many faces and outcomes of pulmonary vein stenosis in early childhood

Tilman Humpl, Jeffrey Fineman, Athar M. Qureshi University Children’s Hospital Berne. University of California, San Francisco. Texas Children’s Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine.Switzerland and United States Pediatric PulmonologyPediatr Pulmonol 2021; 56: 649-655DOI: 10.1002/ppul.24848 AbstractPulmonary vein stenosis is a rare and poorly understood condition causing obstruction of the large pulmonary veins and of blood flow from

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