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The Parasternal Short-Axis View Improves Diagnostic Accuracy for Inferior Sinus Venosus Type of Atrial Septal Defects by Transthoracic Echocardiography by Snarr, Brian S., MD, PhD, Liu, Michael Y., MD, Zuckerberg, Jeremy C., BS, Falkensammer, Christine B., MD, Nadaraj, Sumekala, MD, Burstein, Danielle, MD, Ho, Deborah, MD, Gardner, Monique A., MD, Butto, Arene, MD, Ewing, Stanford G., MD, Pandian, Natesa G., MD, Banerjee, Anirban, MD

“…Background Sinus venosus defects (SVD) of the inferior vena cava (IVC) type, or inferior SVDs, are an uncommon form of atrial communication located outside the…”
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Development and Validation of a Fetal Cardiovascular Disease Severity Scale by Davey, Brooke T., Donofrio, Mary T., Moon-Grady, Anita J., Fifer, Carlen G., Cuneo, Bettina F., Falkensammer, Christine B., Szwast, Anita L., Rychik, Jack

“…Prenatal heart disease spans the spectrum of severity from very mild to severe life-threatening conditions. An accepted scale for grading fetal cardiovascular…”
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Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in a Cohort of Children With Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke by Shih, Evelyn K., Beslow, Lauren A., Natarajan, Shobha S., Falkensammer, Christine B., Messé, Steven R., Ichord, Rebecca N.

“…To determine the significance of patent foramen ovale (PFO) in childhood stroke, we compared PFO prevalence, PFO features, and stroke recurrence risk in 25…”
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Left atrial stiffness and strain are novel indices of left ventricular diastolic function in children: validation followed by application in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children due to COVID-19 by Zuckerberg, Jeremy C, Matsubara, Daisuke, Kauffman, Hunter L, Chang, Joyce C, Calderon-Anyosa, Renzo, Patel, Chandni, Hogarty, Alexa N, Falkensammer, Christine B, Mercer-Rosa, Laura M, Quartermain, Michael D, Wang, Yan, Banerjee, Anirban

“…Abstract Aims We hypothesized left atrial (LA) stiffness may serve as a surrogate marker in children to differentiate elevated pulmonary capillary wedge…”
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Hemodynamic and Echocardiographic Predictors of Mortality in Pediatric Patients on Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: A Multicenter Investigation by Punn, Rajesh, Falkensammer, Christine B., Blinder, Joshua J., Fifer, Carlen G., Thorsson, Thor, Perens, Gregory, Federman, Myke, Gupta, Punkaj, Best, Thomas, Arya, Bhawna, Chan, Titus, Sherman-Levine, Sara, Smith, Shea N., Axelrod, David M., Roth, Stephen J., Tacy, Theresa A.

“…Venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) supports patients with advanced cardiac dysfunction; however, mortality occurs in a significant subset…”
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Association of left ventricular systolic function and vasopressor support with survival following pediatric out-of-hospital cardiac arrest by Conlon, Thomas W, Falkensammer, Christine B, Hammond, Rachel S, Nadkarni, Vinay M, Berg, Robert A, Topjian, Alexis A

“…To characterize the association of hospital discharge survival with left ventricular systolic function evaluated by transthoracic echocardiography and…”
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Comparison of echocardiographic measurements to invasive measurements of diastolic function in infants with single ventricle physiology: a report from the Pediatric Heart Network Infant Single Ventricle Trial by Goudar, Suma P, Zak, Victor, Atz, Andrew M, Altmann, Karen, Colan, Steven D, Falkensammer, Christine B, Friedberg, Mark K, Frommelt, Michele, Hill, Kevin D, Hsu, Daphne T, Levine, Jami C, Margossian, Renee, Mart, Christopher R, Sticka, Joshua, Shrader, Peter, Shirali, Girish

“…While echocardiographic parameters are used to quantify ventricular function in infants with single ventricle physiology, there are few data comparing these to…”
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Pulmonary Vein Doppler Patterns in Infants with Single Right Ventricle Anomalies After Initial Staged Palliations by Kirkpatrick, Edward C., Steltzer, Jessica, Simpson, Pippa, Pan, Amy, Dragulescu, Andrea, Falkensammer, Christine B., Gelehrter, Sarah, Lai, Wyman W., Levine, Jami, Miller, Stephen, Miller, Thomas A., Pruetz, Jay, Sachdeva, Ritu, Thacker, Deepika, Frommelt, Peter

“…The aim of this study was to describe serial changes in echocardiographic Doppler pulmonary vein flow (PVF) patterns in infants with single right ventricle…”
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Serial Plasma BNP Levels in Assessing Inadequate Left Ventricular Decompression on ECMO by Falkensammer, Christine B., Heinle, Jeffrey S., Chang, Anthony C.

“…We describe a female infant with complex single ventricle physiology who had undergone median sternotomy for placement of a right-sided systemic-to-pulmonary…”
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Fetal congestive heart failure: correlation of Tei-index and Cardiovascular-score by Falkensammer, C B, Paul, J, Huhta, J C

“…Congestive heart failure (CHF) may be present in fetuses with hydrops fetalis (HF) and the severity is difficult to quantitate. Differential ventricular…”
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Fetal cardiac malposition: incidence and outcome of associated cardiac and extracardiac malformations by Falkensammer, Christine B, Ayres, Nancy A, Altman, Carolyn A, Ge, Shuping, Bezold, Louis I, Eidem, Benjamin W, Kovalchin, John P

“…Cardiac malposition is a rare but important finding when detected on fetal ultrasound. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the incidence of fetal cardiac…”
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Abstract 12589: Fetoscopic Selective Laser Photocoagulation of Placental Anastomoses Leads to Early Reduction of Cardiovascular Burden in the Twin-Twin Transfusion Syndrome by Chaszczewski, Kasey J, Perelman, Sarah, Falkensammer, Christine B, Khalek, Nahla, Pang, Chengcheng, Tian, Zhiyun, Rychik, Jack

“…BackgroundTwin-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) occurs with an incidence of 10-15% in monochorionic pregnancies. The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)…”
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Prevalence of Patent Foramen Ovale in a Cohort of Children With Cryptogenic Ischemic Stroke by Shih, Evelyn K., Beslow, Lauren A., Natarajan, Shobha S., Falkensammer, Christine B., Messe, Steven R., Ichord, Rebecca N.

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