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Capture of complexity of specialty care in pediatric cardiology by work RVU measuresLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, The Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatrics 131:258-67. 2013..We sought to determine the relationship between relative value units (RVUs) and intended measures of work in catheterization for congenital heart disease...- Catheterization for Congenital Heart Disease Adjustment for Risk Method (CHARM)Lisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, The Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
JACC Cardiovasc Interv 4:1037-46. 2011..This study sought to develop a method to adjust for case mix complexity in catheterization for congenital heart disease to allow equitable comparisons of adverse event (AE) rates... - Report from The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: cardiovascular catheterisation for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease (Part 2 - Nomenclature of complications associated with interventional cardioloLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cardiol Young 21:260-5. 2011..Part 2 will cover the nomenclature of complications associated with interventional cardiology as treatment for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease... - Randomized trial of cutting balloon compared with high-pressure angioplasty for the treatment of resistant pulmonary artery stenosisLisa Bergersen
MPH, Department of Cardiology, The Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Circulation 124:2388-96. 2011..We sought to determine the safety and efficacy of Cutting Balloon therapy (CB) compared with conventional high-pressure balloon therapy (HPB) for the treatment of pulmonary artery stenosis... - Adverse event rates in congenital cardiac catheterization - a multi-center experienceLisa Bergersen
Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, USA
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 75:389-400. 2010..To describe case mix variation among institutions, and report adverse event rates in congenital cardiac catheterization by case type... - Report from The International Society for Nomenclature of Paediatric and Congenital Heart Disease: cardiovascular catheterisation for congenital and paediatric cardiac disease (Part 1 - Procedural nomenclature)Lisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Cardiol Young 21:252-9. 2011..Part 2 will cover the nomenclature of complications associated with interventional cardiology as treatment for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease... - A risk adjusted method for comparing adverse outcomes among practitioners in pediatric and congenital cardiac catheterizationLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Congenit Heart Dis 3:230-40. 2008..We sought to develop a method to adjust for case mix diversity and allow comparison of adverse outcome rates among practitioners in pediatric and congenital cardiac catheterization... - Adverse event rates in congenital cardiac catheterization: a new understanding of risksLisa Bergersen
Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School Department of Cardiology, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Congenit Heart Dis 3:90-105. 2008.... 
What is the current option of first choice for treatment of pulmonary arterial stenosis?Lisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cardiol Young 16:329-38. 2006- Follow-up results of Cutting Balloon angioplasty used to relieve stenoses in small pulmonary arteriesLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cardiol Young 15:605-10. 2005..We sought to determine if the acute gains in pulmonary arterial diameter achieved by using Cutting Balloons to dilate stenoses in small arteries are maintained at follow-up... - Recent results of pulmonary arterial angioplasty: the differences between proximal and distal lesionsLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cardiol Young 15:597-604. 2005..We sought to establish a modern understanding of the safety and efficacy of trans-catheter pulmonary arterial angioplasty... - Procedure-type risk categories for pediatric and congenital cardiac catheterizationLisa Bergersen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 4:188-94. 2011..The Congenital Cardiac Catheterization Project on Outcomes (C3PO) was established to develop outcome assessment methods for pediatric catheterization... - Ultra-high-pressure balloon angioplasty for treatment of resistant stenoses within or adjacent to previously implanted pulmonary arterial stentsJessica Maglione
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 2:52-8. 2009..Angioplasty with ultra-high-pressure (UHP) balloons may facilitate successful treatment of stent-associated PA stenoses that are resistant to high-pressure dilation... - In situ fracture of stents implanted for relief of pulmonary arterial stenosis in patients with congenitally malformed heartsDoff B McElhinney
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Cardiol Young 18:405-14. 2008..Although there are reports of fractured pulmonary arterial stents, little is known about the risk factors for, and implications of, such fractures... - Utility of exercise stress echocardiography in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients: a single-center experienceMing Hui Chen
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 31:517-23. 2012..Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the feasibility and utility of ESE in excluding ANG-detected epicardial CAD at our center, where ESE has been implemented since 2007... - Characterization of radiation exposure and effect of a radiation monitoring policy in a large volume pediatric cardiac catheterization labGeorge R Verghese
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 79:294-301. 2012..This study aimed to characterize radiation dose during cardiac catheterization in congenital heart disease and to assess changes in dose after the introduction of a radiation monitoring policy... - Reproducibility of echocardiographic diagnosis of left ventricular noncompactionSusan F Saleeb
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Am Soc Echocardiogr 25:194-202. 2012..Limited studies exist on the reproducibility of diagnosing LVNC... - Bare metal stenting for obstructed small diameter homograft conduits in the right ventricular outflow tractMichelle Carr
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Catheter Cardiovasc Interv 81:E44-52. 2013..Our aim was to assess acute hemodynamic changes with stent insertion, outcomes, and factors associated with increased longevity of stented small diameter homograft conduits... - Obstruction of the superior vena cava after neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: association with chylothorax and outcome of transcatheter treatmentSelcen Yaroglu Kazanci
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital and Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Crit Care Med 14:37-43. 2013..The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between chylothorax and superior vena cava obstruction after neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation... 
Endomyocardial biopsy and selective coronary angiography are low-risk procedures in pediatric heart transplant recipients: results of a multicenter experienceKevin P Daly
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston and the Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
J Heart Lung Transplant 31:398-409. 2012..No prior reports documenting the safety and diagnostic yield of cardiac catheterization and endomyocardial biopsy (EMB) in heart transplant recipients include multicenter data...- Aortic valvuloplasty in the fetus: technical characteristics of successful balloon dilationAudrey C Marshall
Department of Cardiology and Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Pediatr 147:535-9. 2005..The observation of spontaneous improvement in postdilation aortic regurgitation further suggests that fetal valve tissue behaves uniquely... - Outcomes of stent implantation for obstruction of intracardiac lateral tunnel Fontan pathwaysJoseph M Mets
Department of Cardiology, Boston Children s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
Circ Cardiovasc Interv 6:92-100. 2013..Factors associated with obstruction of the cavopulmonary pathway in patients with a lateral tunnel (LT) intracardiac Fontan connection and outcomes of percutaneous stent implantation for this complication have not been characterized... - Long-term outcome of surgically repaired unilateral anomalous pulmonary artery originBryan H Goldstein
Department of Cardiology, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatr Cardiol 31:944-51. 2010..percutaneous) was a risk factor for second intervention (p = 0.05, HR 11.2). After reimplantation of a UCAPA origin, PAS is frequent and occurs early postoperatively. Close follow-up after repair is necessary... - Ventricular function deteriorates with recurrent coarctation in hypoplastic left heart syndromeLuis Alesandro Larrazabal
Department of Cardiac Surgery, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Ann Thorac Surg 86:869-74; discussion 869-74. 2008..Recurrent coarctation (re-CoA) after stage I palliation in hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is deleterious. We studied whether re-CoA had an effect on ventricular systolic function...