Pulmonary Hypertension Service - Cardiorespiratory research and publications (2011)

A list of research papers authored by members of the Cardiorespiratory Unit at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) in 2011.Al-Malky G, Suri R, Dawson SJ et al. Aminoglycoside antibiotics cochleotoxicity in paediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) patients: A study using extended high-frequency audiometry and distortion product otoacoustic emissions. Int J Audiol 2011;50:112-122.

Atamanyuk I, Raja SG, Kostolny M.  Bartonella henselae endocarditis of percutaneously implanted pulmonary valve: a case report.  J Heart Valve Dis. 2011 Jan;20(1):94-7.

Aurora P, Stanojevic S, Wade A et al. Lung Clearance Index at 4 Years Predicts Subsequent Lung Function in Children with Cystic Fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2011;183:752-758.

Baretta A, Corsini C, Yang W, Vignon-Clementel IE, Marsden AL, Feinstein JA, Hsia TY, Dubini G, Migliavacca F, Pennati G; Modeling of Congenital Hearts Alliance (MOCHA) Investigators.  Virtual surgeries in patients with congenital heart disease: a multi-scale modelling test case.  Philos Transact A Math Phys Eng Sci. 2011 Nov 13;369(1954):4316-30.

Benden C, Aurora P, Edwards LB et al. The Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: Fourteenth Pediatric Lung and Heart-Lung Transplantation Report--2011. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011;30:1123-1132.

Bergersen L, Everett AD, Giroud JM, Martin GR, Franklin RC, Béland MJ, Krogmann ON, Aiello VD, Colan SD, Elliott MJ, Gaynor JW, Kurosawa H, Maruszewski B, Stellin G, Tchervenkov CI, Walters HL 3rd, Weinberg P, Jacobs JP.  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).  Cardiol Young. 2011 Jun;21(3):252-9.

Bergersen L, Giroud JM, Jacobs JP, Franklin RC, Béland MJ, Krogmann ON, Aiello VD, Colan SD, Elliott MJ, Gaynor JW, Kurosawa H, Maruszewski B, Stellin G, Tchervenkov CI, Walters HL, Weinberg P, Everett AD.  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 cardiology). Cardiol Young. 2011 Jun;21(3):260-5.

Brown KL, Pagel C, Pienaar A, Utley M. The relationship between workload and medical staffing levels in a paediatric cardiac intensive care unit.  Intensive Care Med. 2011 Feb;37(2):326-33.

Bryon M, Wallis C. Parents as equal partners in the paediatric cystic fibrosis multidisciplinary team. J R Soc Med  2011;104 Suppl 1:S30-S35.

Butts RJ, Crean AM, Hlavacek AM, Spicer D E, Cook AC, Oechslin EN, Anderson RH.  Veno-venous bridges: the forerunners of the sinus venosus defect.  Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec 21:623-630

Calkoen EE, Gabra HO, Roebuck DJ, Kiely E, Elliott MJ.  Aortopexy as treatment for tracheo-bronchomalacia in children: an 18-year single-center experience.  Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Sep;12(5):545-51.

Charakida M, Hughes M, Khambadkone S, Marek J. Severe pulmonary regurgitation with a normal pulmonary valve in Uhl's anomaly: "An incompetent infundibulum".J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Aug 16;58(8):880.

Ciliberti P, Giardini A. Impact of oral chronic administration of sildenafil in children and young adults after the Fontan operation.  Future Cardiol. 2011 Sep;7(5):609-12.

Corsini C, Cosentino D, Pennati G, Dubini G, Hsia TY, Migliavacca F. Multiscale models of the hybrid palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. J Biomech. 2011 Feb 24;44(4):767-70.

Dedieu N, Giardini A, Khambadkone S, Marek J.  Eosinophilic heart disease in a paediatric patient.  Eur J Echocardiogr. 2011 Jan;12(1):E3. Epub 2010 Aug 20.

Eber E, Lodrup Carlsen KC, Ratjen F et al. Paediatrics in Barcelona: highlights from the 2010 ERS Annual Congress. Eur Respir J 2011;37:1514-1521.

Emin A, Rogers CA, Thekkudan J, Bonser RS, Banner NR; Steering Group, UK Cardiothoracic Transplant Audit. Antithymocyte globulin induction therapy for adult heart transplantation: a UK national study.  J Heart Lung Transplant. 2011 Jul;30(7):770-7.

Faita F, Masi S, Loukogeorgakis S, Gemignani V, Okorie M, Bianchini E, Charakida M, Demi M, Ghiadoni L, Deanfield JE. Comparison of two automatic methods for the assessment of brachial artery flow-mediated dilation. J Hypertens. 2011 Jan;29(1):85-90

Fassone E, Taanman JW, Hargreaves IP, Sebire NJ, Cleary MA, Burch M, Rahman S. Mutations in the mitochondrial complex I assembly factor NDUFAF1 cause fatal infantile hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Med Genet. 2011 Oct;48(10):691-7.

Fishman JM, De Coppi P, Elliott MJ, Atala A, Birchall MA, Macchiarini P.  Airway tissue engineering.  Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2011 Dec;11(12):1623-35.

Flett AS, Hasleton J, Cook C, Hausenloy D, Quarta G, Ariti C, Muthurangu V, Moon JC.  Evaluation of techniques for the quantification of myocardial scar of differing etiology using cardiac magnetic resonance. JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2011 Feb;4(2):150-6.

Genser B, Silbernagel G, De Backer G, Bruckert E, Carmena R, Chapman MJ, Deanfield J, Descamps OS, Rietzschel ER, Dias KC, März W. Plant sterols and cardiovascular disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis.  Eur Heart J. 2012 Feb;33(4):444-51.

Giardini A.  Generalised myopathy in young adults with congenital heart disease. Heart. 2011 Jul;97(14):1115-6.

Giardini A. Limitations inherent to the simplified Bernoulli equation explain the inaccuracy of Doppler echocardiographic estimates of pulmonary artery pressures in patients with pulmonary hypertension.  Chest. 2011 Jul;140(1):270; author reply 270-1.

Giardini A, Biglino G, Hsia TY.  Letter by Giardini et al regarding article, "Maladaptive aortic properties in children after palliation of hypoplastic left heart syndrome assessed by cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging".  Circulation. 2011 May 17;123(19):e594; author reply e595.

Giardini A, Fenton M, Andrews RE, Derrick G, Burch M.  Peak oxygen uptake correlates with survival without clinical deterioration in ambulatory children with dilated cardiomyopathy.  Circulation. 2011 Oct 18;124(16):1713-8.

Giardini A, Odendaal D, Khambadkone S, Derrick G.  Physiologic decrease of ventilatory response to exercise in the second decade of life in healthy children. Am Heart J. 2011 Jun;161(6):1214-9.

Harron K, Ramachandra G, Mok Q, Gilbert R; CATCH team. Consistency between guidelines and reported practice for reducing the risk of catheter-related infection in British paediatric intensive care units.  Intensive Care Med. 2011 Oct; 37(10): 1641-7.

Hertz MI, Aurora P, Benden C et al. Scientific Registry of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation: introduction to the 2011 annual reports. J Heart Lung Transplant 2011;30:1071-1077.

Hislop AA, Moledina S, Foster H, Schulze-Neick I, Haworth SG. Long-term efficacy of bosentan in treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension in children.  Eur Respir J. 2011 Jul;38(1):70-7. Epub 2010 Dec 22.

Hsia TY, Cosentino D, Corsini C, Pennati G, Dubini G, Migliavacca F; Modeling of Congenital Hearts Alliance (MOCHA) Investigators.  Use of mathematical modeling to compare and predict hemodynamic effects between hybrid and surgical Norwood palliations for hypoplastic left heart syndrome.  Circulation. 2011 Sep 13;124(11 Suppl):S204-10.

Hsia TY, Ringewald JM, Stroud RE, Forbus GA, Bradley SM, Chung WK, Spinale FG. Determinants of extracellular matrix remodelling are differentially expressed in paediatric and adult dilated cardiomyopathy. Eur J Heart Fail. 2011 Mar;13(3):271-7.

Hsia TY, Ringewald JM, Stroud RE, Roessler N, Kumar N, Reeves ST, Spinale FG. Plasma profiling determinants of matrix homeostasis in paediatric dilated cardiomyopathy.  Cardiol Young. 2011 Feb;21(1):52-61.

Huber C, Mimic B, Oswal N, Sullivan I, Kostolny M, Elliott M, de Leval M, Tsang V. Outcomes and re-interventions after one-stage repair of transposition of great arteries and aortic arch obstruction. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Feb;39(2):213-20.

Hughes ML, Tsang VT, Kostolny M, Giardini A, Muthurangu V, Taylor AM, Brown K. Lessons from inter-stage cardiac magnetic resonance imaging in predicting survival for patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome. Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec; 21(6): 646-53.

Ibrahim M, Kostolny M, Hsia TY, Van Doorn C, Walker F, Cullen S, Yacoub MH, Tsang VT. The surgical history, management, and outcomes of subaortic stenosis in adults. Ann Thorac Surg. 2012 Apr;93(4):1128-33.

Ilina M, Lowe M, Marek J.  Response to "resolution of dyssynchronous left ventricular failure via cardiac resynchronization and subsequent radiofrequency ablation in an infant with preexcitation".  Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Jan;32(1):119-20.

Iodice FG, Thomas M, Walker I, Garside V, Elliott MJ. Analgesia in fast-track paediatric cardiac patients. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Sep;40(3):610-3.

Jensen HA, Loukogeorgakis S, Yannopoulos F, Rimpiläinen E, Petzold A, Tuominen H, Lepola P, Macallister RJ, Deanfield JE, Mäkelä T, Alestalo K, Kiviluoma K, Anttila V, Tsang V, Juvonen T.  Remote ischemic preconditioning protects the brain against injury after hypothermic circulatory arrest. Circulation. 2011 Feb 22;123(7):714-21.

Jones A, Steeden JA, Pruessner JC, Deanfield JE, Taylor AM, Muthurangu V. Detailed assessment of the hemodynamic response to psychosocial stress using real-time MRI.  J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Feb;33(2):448-54.

Kantor PF, Rusconi P, Lipshultz S, Mital S, Wilkinson JD, Burch M. Current applications and Future Needs for Biomarkers in Pediatric Cardiomyopathy and Heart Failure: Summary From The Second International Conference On Pediatric Cardiomyopathy. Prog Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Aug 1;32(1):11-14.

Karimova A, Van Doorn C, Brown K, Giardini A, Kostolny M, Mathias M, Hoskote A, Burch M.  Mechanical bridging to orthotopic heart transplantation in children weighing less than 10kg: feasibility and limitations.  Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Mar;39(3):304-9.

Kastelein JJ, Duivenvoorden R, Deanfield J, de Groot E, Jukema JW, Kaski JC, Münzel T, Taddei S, Lehnert V, Burgess T, Kallend D, Lüscher TF. Rationale and design of dal-VESSEL: a study to assess the safety and efficacy of dalcetrapib on endothelial function using brachial artery flow-mediated vasodilatation. Curr Med Res Opin. 2011 Jan;27(1):141-50.

Kirkham FJ, Salmon AP, Khambadkone S.  A hole in the heart: a hole in the head? Arch Dis Child. 2011 May;96(5):409-10.

Kowalik GT, Steeden JA, Pandya B, Odille F, Atkinson D, Taylor A, Muthurangu V.  Real-time flow with fast GPU reconstruction for continuous assessment of cardiac output.  J Magn Reson Imaging. 2012 Jun 28. doi: 10.1002/jmri.23736. [Epub ahead of print]

Kuh D, Pierce M, Adams J, Deanfield J, Ekelund U, Friberg P, Ghosh AK, Harwood N, Hughes A, Macfarlane PW, Mishra G, Pellerin D, Wong A, Stephen AM, Richards M, Hardy R; NSHD scientific and data collection team.  Cohort profile: updating the cohort profile for the MRC National Survey of Health and Development: a new clinic-based data collection for ageing research.  Int J Epidemiol. 2011 Feb;40(1):e1-9.

Lammers AE, Diller GP, Odendaal D, Tailor S, Derrick G, Haworth SG. Comparison of 6-min walk test distance and cardiopulmonary exercise test performance in children with pulmonary hypertension.  Arch Dis Child. 2011 Feb;96(2):141-7.

Lange P, Fishman JM, Elliott MJ, De Coppi P, Birchall MA.  What can regenerative medicine offer for infants with laryngotracheal agenesis?  Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2011 Oct;145(4):544-50.

Lekakis J, Abraham P, Balbarini A, Blann A, Boulanger CM, Cockcroft J, Cosentino F, Deanfield J, Gallino A, Ikonomidis I, Kremastinos D,  Landmesser U, Protogerou A, Stefanadis C, Tousoulis D, Vassalli G, Vink H, Werner N, Wilkinson I, Vlachopoulos C. Methods for evaluating endothelial function: a position statement from the European Society of Cardiology Working Group on Peripheral Circulation. Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2011 Dec;18(6):775-89.

Lim CW, Elliott MJ, Khambadkone S. Echocardiographic diagnosis of coronary sinus thrombosis complicating left internal jugular cannulation. Cardiol Young. 2011 Apr;21(2):216-7.

Lischke R, Pozniak J, Vondrys D, Elliott MJ. Novel biodegradable stents in the treatment of bronchial stenosis after lung transplantation. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Sep;40(3):619-24.

Ludman AJ, Hausenloy DJ, Babu G, Hasleton J, Venugopal V, Boston-Griffiths E, Yap J, Lawrence D, Hayward M, Kolvekar S, Bognolo G, Rees P, Yellon DM. Failure to recapture cardioprotection with high-dose atorvastatin in coronary artery bypass surgery: a randomised controlled trial.  Basic Res Cardiol. 2011 Nov;106(6):1387-95.

Ludman AJ, Yellon DM, Hasleton J, Ariti C, Babu GG, Boston-Griffiths E, Venugopal V, Walker M, Holdright D, Swanton H, Crake T, Brull D, Moon JC, Puranik R, Muthurangu V, Taylor A, Hausenloy DJ. Effect of erythropoietin as an adjunct to primary percutaneous coronary intervention: a randomised controlled clinical trial. Heart. 2011 Oct;97(19):1560-5. Erratum in: Heart. 2011 Nov;97(21):1812. Mutharangu, Vivek [corrected to Muthurangu, Vivek].

Lurz P, Nordmeyer J, Giardini A, Khambadkone S, Muthurangu V, Schievano S, Thambo JB, Walker F, Cullen S, Derrick G, Taylor AM, Bonhoeffer P.  Early versus late functional outcome after successful percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation: are the acute effects of altered right ventricular loading all we can expect?  J Am Coll Cardiol. 2011 Feb 8;57(6):724-31.

Mansi T, Voigt I, Leonardi B, Pennec X, Durrleman S, Sermesant M, Delingette H, Taylor AM, Boudjemline Y, Pongiglione G, Ayache N.  A statistical model for quantification and prediction of cardiac remodelling: application to tetralogy of fallot.  IEEE Trans Med Imaging. 2011 Sep;30(9):1605-16.

Marek J, Tomek V, Skovránek J, Povysilová V, Samánek M. Prenatal ultrasound screening of congenital heart disease in an unselected national population: a 21-year experience. Heart. 2011 Jan;97(2):124-30.

Marino BS, Drotar D, Cassedy A, Davis R, Tomlinson RS, Mellion K, Mussatto K, Mahony L, Newburger JW, Tong E, Cohen MI, Helfaer MA, Kazak AE, Wray J, Wernovsky G, Shea JA, Ittenbach R. External validity of the pediatric cardiac quality of life inventory. Qual Life Res. 2011 Mar;20(2):205-14.

Masi S, Jones A, Charakida M, O'Neill F, D'Aiuto F, Virdis A, Taddei S, Deanfield JE, Ghiadoni L. Blood Pressure and Vascular Alterations with Growth in Childhood. Curr Pharm Des. 2011;17(28):3045-61.

Masi S, Salpea KD, Li K, Parkar M, Nibali L, Donos N, Patel K, Taddei S, Deanfield JE, D'Aiuto F, Humphries SE. Oxidative stress, chronic inflammation, and telomere length in patients with periodontitis. Free Radic Biol Med. 2011 Mar 15;50(6):730-5.

Mertens L, Seri I, Marek J, Arlettaz R, Barker P, McNamara P, Moon-Grady AJ, Coon PD, Noori S, Simpson J, Lai WW; American Society of Echocardiography (ASE); European Association of Echocardiography (EAE); Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC). Targeted neonatal echocardiography in the neonatal intensive care unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training. Eur J Echocardiogr. 2011 Oct;12(10):715-36.

Mertens L, Seri I, Marek J, Arlettaz R, Barker P, McNamara P, Moon-Grady AJ, Coon PD, Noori S, Simpson J, Lai WW; Writing Group of the American Society of Echocardiography; European Association of Echocardiography; Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists. Targeted Neonatal Echocardiography in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: practice guidelines and recommendations for training. Writing Group of the American Society of Echocardiography (ASE) in collaboration with the European Association of Echocardiography (EAE) and the Association for European Pediatric Cardiologists (AEPC). J Am Soc Echocardiogr. 2011 Oct;24(10):1057-78.

Meyer S, Gortner L, Brown K, Abdul-Khaliq H. The role of milrinone in children with cardiovascular compromise: review of the literature. Wien Med Wochenschr. 2011 Apr;161(7-8):184-91

Moledina S, de Bruyn A, Schievano S, Owens CM, Young C, Haworth SG, Taylor AM, Schulze-Neick I, Muthurangu V. Fractal branching quantifies vascular changes and predicts survival in pulmonary hypertension: a proof of principle study. Heart. 2011 Aug;97(15):1245-9.

Murtuza B, Elliott MJ. Changing attitudes to the management of hypoplastic left heart syndrome: a European perspective.Cardiol Young. 2011 Dec;21 Suppl 2:148-58.

Nordmeyer J, Lurz P, Khambadkone S, Schievano S, Jones A, McElhinney DB, Taylor AM, Bonhoeffer P.  Pre-stenting with a bare metal stent before percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation: acute and 1-year outcomes. Heart. 2011 Jan;97(2):118-23. Epub 2010 Oct 21.

Ntsinjana HN, Hughes ML, Taylor AM. The role of cardiovascular magnetic resonance in pediatric congenital heart disease. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2011 Sep 21;13:51.

Odenwald T, Taylor AM. Pulmonary valve interventions. Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy 2011; 9(11): 1445-1457.

Odille F, Steeden JA, Muthurangu V, Atkinson D. Automatic segmentation propagation of the aorta in real-time phase contrast MRI using nonrigid registration. J Magn Reson Imaging. 2011 Jan;33(1):232-8.

Okorie MI, Bhavsar DD, Ridout D, Charakida M, Deanfield JE, Loukogeorgakis SP, MacAllister RJ.  Postconditioning protects against human endothelial ischaemia-reperfusion injury via subtype-specific KATP channel activation and is mimicked by inhibition of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. Eur Heart J. 2011 May;32(10):1266-74.

O'Leary DH, Reuwer AQ, Nissen SE, Després JP, Deanfield JE, Brown MW, Zhou R, Zabbatino SM, Job B, Kastelein JJ, Visseren FL; AUDITOR investigators.Effect of rimonabant on carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) progression in patients with abdominal obesity and metabolic syndrome: the AUDITOR Trial.  Heart. 2011 Jul;97(14):1143-50.

Owens CM, Aurora P, Stanojevic S et al. Lung Clearance Index and HRCT are complementary markers of lung abnormalities in young children with CF. Thorax 2011;66:481-488.

Papademetriou MD, Tachtsidis I, Banaji M, Elliott MJ, Hoskote A, Elwell CE. Regional cerebral oxygenation measured by multichannel near-infrared spectroscopy (optical topography) in an infant supported on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 May;141(5):e31-3.

Pennati G, Corsini C, Cosentino D, Hsia TY, Luisi VS, Dubini G, Migliavacca F. Boundary conditions of patient-specific fluid dynamics modelling of cavopulmonary connections: possible adaptation of pulmonary resistances results in a critical issue for a virtual surgical planning. Interface Focus. 2011 Jun 6;1(3):297-307.

Plymen CM, Bolger AP, Lurz P, Nordmeyer J, Lee TY, Kabir A, Coats L, Cullen S, Walker F, Deanfield JE, Taylor AM, Bonhoeffer P, Lambiase PD. Electrical remodeling following percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation. Am J Cardiol. 2011 Jan 15;107(2):309-14.

Raja SG, Atamanyuk I, Pandey RB, Kostolny M. Fenestration closure in a calcified ventricular septal defect patch. Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2011 Dec;19(6):430-2.

Raja SG, Kostolny M, Oswal N, Afifi A, Mimic B, Sullivan ID, de Leval MR, Tsang VT. Midterm follow-up of arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries with intact ventricular septum and left-ventricular outflow tract obstruction.  Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Oct;40(4):994-9.

Rodrigues W, Carr M, Ridout D, Carter K, Hulme SL, Simmonds J, Elliott M, Hoskote A, Burch M, Brown KL.  Total donor ischemic time: relationship to early hemodynamics and intensive care morbidity in pediatric cardiac transplant recipients. Pediatr Crit Care Med. 2011 Nov;12(6):660-6.

Schievano S, Capelli C, Young C, Lurz P, Nordmeyer J, Owens C, Bonhoeffer P, Taylor AM. Four-dimensional computed tomography: a method of assessing right ventricular outflow tract and pulmonary artery deformations throughout the cardiac cycle. Eur Radiol. 2011 Jan;21(1):36-45.

Schmidt MR, White PA, Khambadkone S, Gross GJ, Bøtker HE, Vogel M, Hjortdal VE, Sørensen KE, Redington AN. The neonatal but not the mature heart adapts to acute tachycardia by beneficial modification of the force-frequency relationship. Pediatr Cardiol. 2011 Jun;32(5):562-7.

Secinaro A, Ntsinjana H, Tann O, Schuler PK, Muthurangu V, Hughes M, Tsang V, Taylor AM.  Cardiovascular magnetic resonance findings in repaired anomalous left coronary artery to pulmonary artery connection (ALCAPA)  J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2011 May 16;13:27.

Sonnappa S, Bastardo CM, Aurora P et al. Residential proximity to main roads and lung function in healthy young children. Eur Respir J 2011;37:1525-1526.

Sonnappa S, Bastardo CM, Saglani S et al. Relationship between past airway pathology and current lung function in preschool wheezers.  Eur Respir J 2011;38:1431-1436.

Sonnappa S, Bastardo CM, Stafler P et al. Ethnic differences in fraction of exhaled nitric oxide and lung function in healthy young children. Chest 2011;140:1325-1331.

Speggiorin S, Atamanyuk I, Wallis C, Roebuck DJ, McLaren CA, Noctor C, Elliott MJ. Severe bronchomalacia treated by combination of Nuss procedure and aortopexy: an unusual therapy combination. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Jan;91(1):e8-9.

Speggiorin S, Elliott MJ. Is slide tracheoplasty alone enough to improve the surgical outcome? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2011 Aug;142(2):475.

Speggiorin S, Fierens A, McHugh K, Roebuck DJ, McLaren CA, Mok Q, Broadhead M, Elliott MJ.  Bronchomegaly as a complication of fetal endoscopic tracheal occlusion. A caution and a possible solution.  J Pediatr Surg. 2011 May;46(5):e1-3.

Speggiorin S, Torre M, Roebuck DJ, McLaren CA, Elliott MJ. Surgical outcome of slide tracheoplasty in patients with long congenital segment tracheal stenosis and single lung. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Jun;39(6):e170-4.

Steeden JA, Atkinson D, Hansen MS, Taylor AM, Muthurangu V. Rapid flow assessment of congenital heart disease with high-spatiotemporal-resolution gated spiral phase-contrast MR imaging. Radiology. 2011 Jul;260(1):79-87.

Takken T, Giardini A, Reybrouck T, Gewillig M, Hövels-Gürich HH, Longmuir PE, McCrindle BW, Paridon SM, Hager A. Recommendations for physical activity, recreation sport, and exercise training in paediatric patients with congenital heart disease: a report from the Exercise, Basic & Translational Research Section of the European Association of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation, the European Congenital Heart and Lung Exercise Group, and the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology.  Eur J Cardiovasc Prev Rehabil. 2011 Aug 22. [Epub ahead of print]

Taylor AE, Guthrie PA, Smith GD, Golding J, Sattar N, Hingorani AD, Deanfield JE, Day IN.  IQ, educational attainment, memory and plasma lipids: associations with apolipoprotein E genotype in 5995 children. Biol Psychiatry. 2011 Jul 15;70(2):152-8.

Thayyil S, Sebire NJ, Chitty LS, Wade A, Olsen O, Gunny RS, Offiah A, Saunders DE, Owens CM, Chong WK, Robertson NJ, Taylor AM. Post mortem magnetic resonance imaging in the fetus, infant and child: A comparative study with conventional autopsy (MaRIAS Protocol). BMC Pediatr 2011; 11(1):120.

Tsang VT, Cameron DE, Raja SG. How to avoid crimping during valve sparing aortic root replacement using the Valsalva graft. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 2011 Jul; 40(1):266-7.

Tsang V, Utley M. Invited commentary. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Sep;92(3):957.

van Geldorp IE, Delhaas T, Gebauer RA, Frias P, Tomaske M, Friedberg MK, Tisma-Dupanovic S, Elders J, Früh A, Gabbarini F, Kubus P, Illikova V, Tsao S, Blank AC, Hiippala A, Sluysmans T, Karpawich P, Clur SA, Ganame X, Collins KK, Dann G, Thambo JB, Trigo C, Nagel B, Papagiannis J, Rackowitz A, Marek J, Nürnberg JH, Vanagt WY, Prinzen FW, Janousek J; for the Working Group for Cardiac Dysrhythmias and Electrophysiology of the Association for European Paediatric Cardiology. Impact of the permanent ventricular pacing site on left ventricular function in children: a retrospective multicentre survey. Heart. 2011 Dec; 97(24): 2051-2055.

Vondrys D, Elliott MJ, McLaren CA, Noctor C, Roebuck DJ. First experience with biodegradable airway stents in children. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Nov;92(5):1870-4.

Wallis C, Paton JY, Beaton S et al. Children on long-term ventilatory support: 10 years of progress. Arch Dis Child 2011;96:998-1002

Williams DM, Fraser A, Sayers A, Fraser WD, Hingorani A, Deanfield J, Davey Smith G, Sattar N, Lawlor DA.  Associations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D2 and D3 with cardiovascular risk factors in childhood: cross-sectional findings from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children.  J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2012 May;97(5):1563-71.

Wray J, Lee K, Dearmun N, Franck L. Parental anxiety and stress during children's hospitalisation: the StayClose study. J Child Health Care. 2011 Sep;15(3):163-74.

Young C, Taylor AM, Owens CM. Paediatric cardiac computed tomography: a review of imaging techniques and radiation dose consideration. Eur Radiol. 2011 Mar;21(3):518-29.