Maternal-fetal comorbidities and obstetrical outcomes of fetal single ventricle cardiac defects: 10 years' experience with a multidisciplinary management protocol at a single center.

Objectives: To describe and compare maternal and fetal comorbidities and obstetrical outcomes in pregnancies with hypoplastic left and right heart (HLHS and HRH) single ventricle cardiac defects (SVCD) from a single center under a multidisciplinary protocol.

Method: A single center retrospective review of fetal SVCD from 2013 to 2022. Maternal-fetal comorbidities, delivery, and postnatal outcomes were compared between HLHS and HRH using descriptive statistics and univariate and multivariate analyses.

Diagnostic yield of cone beam CT based navigation bronchoscopy in patients with metastatic lesions: A propensity score matched case-control study.

Background: Cone beam CT based Navigation Bronchoscopy (CBCT-NB) has predominantly been investigated as a diagnostic tool in (suspected) primary lung cancers. Small metastatic lesions are clinically considered more challenging to diagnose, but no study has explored the yield of navigation bronchoscopy in patients with pulmonary metastatic lesions (ML) compared to primary lung cancers (PL), correcting for known lesion characteristics affecting diagnostic yield.

Materials And Methods: This is a single-center, retrospective, propensity score-matched case-control study.

Rapid on-site evaluation of touch imprint cytology in navigation bronchoscopy for small peripheral pulmonary nodules.

Background: Rapid on-site evaluation (ROSE) of cytopathology plays an important role in determining whether representative samples have been taken during navigation bronchoscopy. With touch imprint cytology (TIC), histologic samples can be assessed using ROSE. Although advised by guidelines, there have been almost no studies on the performance of TIC during navigation bronchoscopy.

Cone-beam CT in lung biopsy: a clinical practice review on lessons learned and future perspectives.

Pulmonary nodules with intermediate to high risk of malignancy should preferably be diagnosed with image guide minimally invasive diagnostics before treatment. Several technological innovations have been developed to endobronchially navigate to these lesions and obtain tissue for diagnosis. This review addresses these technological advancements in navigation bronchoscopy in three basic steps: navigation, position confirmation and acquisition, with a specific focus on cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT).

Contemporary pregnancy outcomes for women with moderate and severe congenital heart disease.

Background: Women with congenital heart disease (CHD) are surviving into adulthood, with more undergoing pregnancy.

Methods: Retrospective review of the Vizient database from 2017-2019 for women 15-44 years old with moderate, severe or no CHD and vaginal delivery or caesarean section. Demographics, hospital outcomes and costs were compared.