Maria Zubrzycka

TL;DR: Covered CP stents may be used as the therapy of choice in patients with complications after CoA repairs, whereas they provide a safe alternative to conventional stenting in patientswith severe and complex CoA lesions or advanced age.

TL;DR: The authors inserted covered Cheatham-Platinum stents in 4 patients, ranging in age from 12 to 19 years, who weighed between 45 and 94 kg, who had aortic coarctation, with surgical repair and balloon dilation having been performed as the primary treatment in two, resulting in formation of aneurysms.

TL;DR: The experience demonstrates the possibility of successful early shunt recanalization with the use of local thrombolytic therapy combined with the balloon angioplasty and the presence of old fixed thrombus with neointimal hypertrophy in the shunt constitutes an indication for endovascular stent implantation.

TL;DR: The relative decrease of the size of pulmonary arteries in the inter-stage period (between bidirectional Glenn anastomosis andFontan completion) and after Fontan completion may indicate that pulmonary artery sizes should probably not bean absolute limiting factor in the decision on treatment of functionally UVH patients, especially at the stage of Fontan approach.

TL;DR: The analysis of the survival curves revealed a better prognosis in patients with baseline N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) level < 605 pg/mL and a higher probability of survival of three and five years in children at baseline I/II World Health Organisation functional class (WHO-FC).