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 ...

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence is examining balloon angioplasty of pulmonary vein stenosis in infancy and will publish guidance on its safety and efficacy to the NHS in England, Wales ...

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 ...

The upper pulmonary veins (PVs) are responsible for the majority of atrial fibrillation (AF) triggering foci, whereas the inferior PVs are more difficult to ablate and prone to postablation ostial ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...