Serial echocardiography in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia: diagnosing and managing recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis.

IF 0.1 Q4 OBSTETRICS & GYNECOLOGY

Case Reports in Perinatal Medicine Pub Date : 2025-03-24 eCollection Date: 2025-01-01 DOI:10.1515/crpm-2024-0038

Oishi Sikdar, Mahesh Nanjundappa, Aaron Bell, Matthew Jones, Anne Greenough

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Objectives: To highlight the importance of serial echocardiography in preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) to diagnose recurrent pulmonary vein stenosis (PVS) and understand its contribution to respiratory deteriorations.

Case presentation: A preterm female infant born at 23+5 weeks gestation had numerous complications related to extreme prematurity, including BPD. She was diagnosed with PVS on echocardiogram after experiencing recurrent respiratory deteriorations and pulmonary hypertensive crises. Initial management involved transcutaneous balloon dilatation. A serial echocardiographic programme was implemented, with weekly monitoring of PVS. She suffered multiple respiratory deteriorations secondary to recurrence of PVS, necessitating repeat cardiac catheterisations and transcatheter stenting. Systemic macrolide therapy with sirolimus was used as adjunctive therapy.

Conclusions: Extremely prematurely born infants who develop BPD are at higher risk of recurrent PVS. We demonstrate that serial echocardiographic monitoring facilitates early diagnosis and prompt intervention of PVS. Any respiratory deterioration in such infants should be assessed by an echocardiogram.

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期刊介绍： Case Reports in Perinatal Medicine is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal. The objective of the new journal is very similar to that of JPM. In addition to evidence-based studies, practitioners in clinical practice esteem especially exemplary reports of cases that reveal specific manifestations of diseases, its progress or its treatment. We consider case reports and series to be brief reports describing an isolated clinical case or a small number of cases. They may describe new or uncommon diagnoses, unusual outcomes or prognosis, new or infrequently used therapies and side effects of therapy not usually discovered in clinical trials. They represent the basic concept of experiences for studies on representative groups for further evidence-based research. The potential roles of case reports and case series are: Recognition and description of new diseases Detection of drug side effects (adverse or beneficial) Study of mechanisms of disease Medical education and audit Recognition of rare manifestations of disease.