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Central MessagePreoperative testing can help identify coronary artery lesions in patients with Williams syndrome and other elastin arteriopathies.See Article page 212. Preoperative arteriopathies. See A group from Stanford has analyzed outcomes of arteriopathies who underwent relief ostial stenosis along supravalvular aortic pulmonary stenosis.2Mainwaring R.D. Collins R.T. Patrick W.L. Martin E...

Fetal in situ cardiovascular and bronchial morphologies were studied in rats with tetralogy of Fallot and absent pulmonary valve to clarify the prenatal pathology of this complex. There were 42 fetal rats with this complex among 300 fetuses treated with N,N'-bis-(dichloroacetyl)-1,8-octamethylenediamine (bis-diamine) (200 mg) on the 10th day of pregnancy. After undergoing rapid whole-body freez...

The main pulmonary trunk was banded in four fetal sheep at 63--69 days of gestation. The fetuses were killed after they had developed progressive pulmonary stenosis at 98, 123, 134 and 135 days of gestation. The right lung of each animal was perfused with glutaraldehyde and serial sections followed microscopically. The medial width/external diameter ratios for fifth generation resistance vessel...

A 5-year-old male with a double outlet right ventricle with noncommitted ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis underwent a bidirectional Glenn operation at 2 years and a Fontan operation with ligation of the pulmonary trunk at 5 years. He presented with pleural effusion 3 months after the Fontan operation. Physical examination revealed a grade 3/6 systolic murmur in the pulmonary are...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the spectrum of pulmonary atresia and critical pulmonary stenosis using right ventricular outflow tract angiography and explore its implications for catheter interventional treatment. DESIGN Prospective clinical study. SETTING Two paediatric cardiology centres. SUBJECTS 11 neonates or infants (aged 1 day to 8 months; weighing 2.3 to 7.8 kg) with pulmonary atresia ...

no commissural fusion. The obstructive mechanism is related to markedly thickened, immobile cusps, characterized by the presence of disorganized myxomatous tissue. Several clinical features tend to distinguish this form of pulmonary stenosis. In each of 16 patients studied, a pulmonary ejection murmur was present, but this was not associated with an ejection click. Other features suggestive of ...

The study has focused on the retrospective analysis of cases of coexisting congenital aortic stenosis (AS) and pulmonary artery stenosis (PS) in dogs. The research included 5463 dogs which were referred for cardiological examination (including clinical examination, ECG and echocardiography) between 2004 and 2014. Aortic stenosis and PS stenosis were detected in 31 dogs. This complex defect was ...

SINCE the description by Mbller' in 1953 of stenosis of peripheral pulmonary arteries, this congenital lesion has been recognized with increasing frequency. The lesion is of interest both from a clinical and physiologic standpoint. From the latter standpoint, there is sufficient documentation to warrant the inclusion of this congenital anomaly as one of the causes of right ventricular hypertens...

Fourteen infants, all under 6 months of age, underwent surgery for the relief of severe valvar pulmonary stenosis. A modified Brock (transinfundibular valvotomy) procedure was performed in all cases. Dilatation of the pulmonary valve with a mosquito clamp and biliary dilator is the basis of the modified operation. All infants survived the operation. In two patients there is residual, significan...