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 ...

Pulmonary vein stenosis (narrowing) may be congenital or may be acquired after surgery to correct other congenital cardiac anomalies. It is rare and often associated with other cardiac abnormalities.

Chicago, IL - Pulmonary vein (PV) stenosis following radiofrequency ablation to treat refractory atrial fibrillation is the Achilles heel of this strategy, and experts say the complication is creating ...

Adding chemotherapy to a treatment regimen including catheterization and surgery can deter abnormal cellular growth and finally give children with pulmonary vein stenosis a chance to grow up, shows ...

Pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) is a rare disease in which abnormal cells build up inside the veins responsible for carrying oxygen-rich blood from the lungs to the heart. It restricts blood flow ...

Born premature at a Denver hospital at just 30 weeks, Portia is the first baby for Tod Opichka and Jenna Parka."She is quite the little miracle," Jenna said.Watch reportPortia is now 10 months old and ...

Dallas, TX - Isolation of the pulmonary veins can completely resolve or markedly improve symptoms in more than 80 percent of patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (AF). However, when the AF is ...

HEMOPTYSIS occurs quite frequently as a consequence of mitral stenosis, but massive, life-threatening pulmonary hemorrhage is distinctly unusual. 1–4,5,6 Oppenheimer and Schwartz 3 have termed its ...

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 ...