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View article: Large Patent Ductus Arteriosus in an Adult With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Polycythemia
Large Patent Ductus Arteriosus in an Adult With Severe Pulmonary Hypertension and Polycythemia Open
PDA diagnosed in adulthood is rare and carries significant morbidity, with findings such as congestive heart failure, infectious endarteritis, or severe pulmonary hypertension. Our patient had multiple severe and rare sequelae of a very la…
View article: Trends in Radiation Exposure With the Refinement of Radiation Exposure Categories in Congenital Cardiac Catheterization: Insights From the CRISP Registry
Trends in Radiation Exposure With the Refinement of Radiation Exposure Categories in Congenital Cardiac Catheterization: Insights From the CRISP Registry Open
View article: Blind Fistulous Pouch After Coronary Artery Fistula Repair
Blind Fistulous Pouch After Coronary Artery Fistula Repair Open
Long-term management of CAF is complex and ongoing. High-quality advanced imaging is paramount to diagnose and prevent complications such as thromboembolic events and coronary obstruction. Cardiac computed tomography angiography with a fis…
View article: Off-Label Placement of a 26-mm SAPIEN S3 into an Alterra Adaptive Prestent to Avoid Coronary Compression
Off-Label Placement of a 26-mm SAPIEN S3 into an Alterra Adaptive Prestent to Avoid Coronary Compression Open
View article: Association between procedure duration and adverse events in congenital cardiac catheterization
Association between procedure duration and adverse events in congenital cardiac catheterization Open
Background: Procedure duration is an important predictor of patient outcomes in surgery. However, the relationship between procedure duration and adverse events in congenital cardiac catheterization is largely unexplored. Methods: All case…
View article: Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Risk Assessment in Infants Under 2.5kg
Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Risk Assessment in Infants Under 2.5kg Open
Background: Premature and small-for-gestational-age neonates with congenital heart disease increasingly require congenital cardiac catheterization (CCC). These patients present unique procedural and patient-specific risks that standard ris…
View article: Correction: Patent Ductus Arteriosus: (Don’t) follow your heart
Correction: Patent Ductus Arteriosus: (Don’t) follow your heart Open
View article: Patent Ductus Arteriosus: (Don’t) follow your heart
Patent Ductus Arteriosus: (Don’t) follow your heart Open
View article: Conventional Platinum Metal Implants Provoke Restenosis Responses in Atherogenic but Not Healthy Arteries
Conventional Platinum Metal Implants Provoke Restenosis Responses in Atherogenic but Not Healthy Arteries Open
Platinum-containing stents are commonly used in humans with hypercholesterolemia, whereas preclinical stent evaluation has commonly been performed in healthy animal models, providing inadequate information about stent performance under hyp…
View article: Self-Expanding Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implant in the Right Pulmonary Artery
Self-Expanding Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implant in the Right Pulmonary Artery Open
View article: Sterilization effects on poly(glycerol dodecanedioate): A biodegradable shape memory elastomer for biomedical applications
Sterilization effects on poly(glycerol dodecanedioate): A biodegradable shape memory elastomer for biomedical applications Open
Biodegradable shape memory polymers provide unique regenerative medicine approaches in minimally invasive surgeries. Once heated, thermally responsive shape memory polymer devices can be compressed, programmed to fit within a small profile…
View article: Palliative stenting of the venous duct in a premature neonate with obstructed infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection
Palliative stenting of the venous duct in a premature neonate with obstructed infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection Open
In infracardiac, infradiaphragmatic total anomalous pulmonary venous connection, all four pulmonary veins connect to a descending vertical vein that usually drains to the portal vein or one of its tributaries. Obstruction is common, and de…
View article: Stretched to the Limit: Comparing Polytetrafluoroethylene-Covered Endovascular Stents Through Serial Dilations
Stretched to the Limit: Comparing Polytetrafluoroethylene-Covered Endovascular Stents Through Serial Dilations Open
All iCast stents experienced partial fracture with dilation between 14- and 16-mm diameter and had unpredictable fracturing patterns. VBX stents showed a more predictable fracture pattern and had less recoil with nominal inflation but more…
View article: In-vivo evaluation of molybdenum as bioabsorbable stent candidate
In-vivo evaluation of molybdenum as bioabsorbable stent candidate Open
Biodegradable stents have tremendous theoretical potential as an alternative to bare metal stents and drug-eluting stents for the treatment of obstructive coronary artery disease. Any bioresorbable or biodegradable scaffold material needs …
View article: Perventricular Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation in a Symptomatic 3-Year-Old Child With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot
Perventricular Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Implantation in a Symptomatic 3-Year-Old Child With Repaired Tetralogy of Fallot Open
In select patients, transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement through a percutaneous approach can be challenging because of complicated anatomy or small patient size. In these patients, especially those weighing Level of Difficulty: Interm…
View article: Gerbode defect following surgical mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair: a case report
Gerbode defect following surgical mitral valve replacement and tricuspid valve repair: a case report Open
Background Gerbode defect is a congenital or acquired communication between the left ventricle and right atrium. While the defect is becoming a more well-recognized complication of cardiac surgery, it presents a diagnostic and therapeutic …
View article: Development of Tissue Engineered Heart Valves for Percutaneous Transcatheter Delivery in a Fetal Ovine Model
Development of Tissue Engineered Heart Valves for Percutaneous Transcatheter Delivery in a Fetal Ovine Model Open
This multidisciplinary work shows the feasibility of replacing the fetal pulmonary valve with a percutaneous, transcatheter, fully biodegradable tissue-engineered heart valve (TEHV), which was studied in vitro through accelerated degradati…
View article: Modulating nonlinear elastic behavior of biodegradable shape memory elastomer and small intestinal submucosa(SIS) composites for soft tissue repair
Modulating nonlinear elastic behavior of biodegradable shape memory elastomer and small intestinal submucosa(SIS) composites for soft tissue repair Open
View article: Zn2+-dependent suppression of vascular smooth muscle intimal hyperplasia from biodegradable zinc implants
Zn2+-dependent suppression of vascular smooth muscle intimal hyperplasia from biodegradable zinc implants Open
View article: Degradation properties of a biodegradable shape memory elastomer, poly(glycerol dodecanoate), for soft tissue repair
Degradation properties of a biodegradable shape memory elastomer, poly(glycerol dodecanoate), for soft tissue repair Open
Development of biodegradable shape memory elastomers (SMEs) is driven by the growing need for materials to address soft tissue pathology using a minimally invasive surgical approach. Composition, chain length and crosslinking of biocompati…
View article: Fetal Transcatheter Trileaflet Heart Valve Hemodynamics: Implications of Scaling on Valve Mechanics and Turbulence
Fetal Transcatheter Trileaflet Heart Valve Hemodynamics: Implications of Scaling on Valve Mechanics and Turbulence Open
View article: Multicenter Experience Evaluating Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Bovine Jugular Vein (Contegra) Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery Conduits
Multicenter Experience Evaluating Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement in Bovine Jugular Vein (Contegra) Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery Conduits Open
Background— Follow-up of transcatheter pulmonary valve replacement (TPVR) with the Melody valve has demonstrated good short-term and long-term outcomes, but there are no published studies focused on valve performance in the Contegra bovine…
View article: Normothermic Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion: Effects of Live Animal Blood and Plasma Cross Circulation
Normothermic Ex Vivo Heart Perfusion: Effects of Live Animal Blood and Plasma Cross Circulation Open
Prolonged normothermic ex vivo heart perfusion could transform cardiac transplantation. To help identify perfusate components that might enable long-term perfusion, we evaluated the effects of cross-circulated whole blood and cross-circula…
View article: Tailoring the physicochemical and shape memory properties of the biodegradable polymer poly(glycerol dodecanoate) via curing conditions
Tailoring the physicochemical and shape memory properties of the biodegradable polymer poly(glycerol dodecanoate) via curing conditions Open
A major challenge in the repair and regeneration of soft tissue damage occurring as a result of aging, injury, or disease is recapitulating the biomechanical properties of the native tissue. Ideally, a candidate biomaterial for soft tissue…
View article: Transcatheter valve implantation for right atrium‐to‐right ventricle conduit obstruction or regurgitation after modified Björk–fontan procedure
Transcatheter valve implantation for right atrium‐to‐right ventricle conduit obstruction or regurgitation after modified Björk–fontan procedure Open
Background The most common reason for reintervention after a Björk modification of the Fontan procedure, in which the right ventricle (RV) is incorporated into the pulmonary circulation by connecting the right atrial (RA) appendage to the …
View article: Severely regurgitant left ventricle to ascending aorta conduit in a failing fontan patient treated with a vascular endograft and melody transcatheter pulmonary valve via hybrid approach
Severely regurgitant left ventricle to ascending aorta conduit in a failing fontan patient treated with a vascular endograft and melody transcatheter pulmonary valve via hybrid approach Open
A 28‐year‐old male with single ventricular heart disease status post Fontan palliation and subsequent placement of left ventricle to ascending aorta (LV‐AAo) valved conduit developed ascites and edema. Diagnostic catheterization revealed e…
View article: Achieving 12 Hour Normothermic Ex Situ Heart Perfusion: An Experience of 40 Porcine Hearts
Achieving 12 Hour Normothermic Ex Situ Heart Perfusion: An Experience of 40 Porcine Hearts Open
Although total body perfusion with extracorporeal life support (ECLS) can be maintained for weeks, individual organ perfusion beyond 12 hours has yet to be achieved clinically. Normothermic ex situ heart perfusion (ESHP) offers the potenti…
View article: Thrombolytic-Enhanced Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation After Prolonged Cardiac Arrest
Thrombolytic-Enhanced Extracorporeal Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation After Prolonged Cardiac Arrest Open
In a porcine model of prolonged cardiac arrest, t-ECPR improved cardiac resuscitability and reduced brain edema, without increasing bleeding complications. However, early electroencephalogram recovery and ischemic neuronal injury were not …
View article: Ruptured aneurysm of a major aortopulmonary collateral
Ruptured aneurysm of a major aortopulmonary collateral Open
A 43-year-old woman with unrepaired pulmonary atresia and ventricular septal defect with multiple aortopulmonary collaterals presented to an outside hospital with acute onset dyspnoea and severe hypoxaemia. She was intubated due to respira…