Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 1 (March 2015), pp. 204-210 (7 pages) AbstractPeripheral pulmonary artery stenosis (PPAS) is an underrecognized condition in the adult population. PPAS can lead to ...

We have had the opportunity of studying 17 patients and wish to add our findings to the scant literature on this benign cardiac malformation. We emphasize the fact that this anomaly is more common ...

Two decades of experience with stenting to treat pulmonary vein stenosis in children at one of the foremost US centers for the procedure paints a sobering picture, one of short-term success against a ...

In pediatric patients considered “untreatable” after failing low-pressure balloon angioplasty for pulmonary artery stenosis, treatment with a cutting balloon is more effective than high-pressure ...

A clinical trial shows that adding chemotherapy to a treatment regimen including catheterization and surgery can deter abnormal cellular growth and finally give children with pulmonary vein stenosis a ...

A 28-year-old female with a history of uncorrected congenital heart disease reports occasional palpitations and mild dizziness on exertion. The symptoms do not disturb the patient; since childhood she ...

IT has been suggested 1,2 that severe pulmonary changes, supposedly irreversible, in patients with mitral stenosis would preclude beneficial results from valvulotomy. Recent publications from this ...

Patients with congenital heart diseases often suffer from obstructions in the right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT), which carries blood from the heart to the lungs. These obstructions can be ...

Pulmonary Circulation, Vol. 5, No. 3 (September 2015), pp. 521-526 (6 pages) AbstractPrevious studies have suggested that pulmonary hypertension (PH) in severe aortic stenosis (AS) is a risk factor ...