{"id":17,"date":"2020-09-06T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2020-09-06T17:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2020-10-14T18:24:14","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T18:24:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"Problem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Background<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2020\/10\/Stenosis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60\" width=\"494\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2020\/10\/Stenosis.jpeg 864w, https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2020\/10\/Stenosis-300x224.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/163\/2020\/10\/Stenosis-768x572.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 494px) 100vw, 494px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:9px\"><em>Modified from Pekkan et al., 2005 (doi:10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.530931<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Congenital heart defects affect nearly 1% of\u2015or about 40,000\u2015births per year in the United States.<sup>1<\/sup> Pulmonary artery stenosis, the narrowing of the pulmonary artery, occurs in 7-10% of congenital heart defects and can occur in isolations or in relation to other conditions<sup>2<\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Children suffering from pulmonary artery stenosis are currently treated using stents that are able to be re-expanded through additional surgical procedures, specifically balloon-angioplasty, a type of balloon expansion of stents via a catheter.<sup>3<\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Pediatric patients are most susceptible to surgical risks and complications associated with re-expansion surgeries as they may need to undergo up to 7 throughout their development<sup>4<\/sup><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p style=\"font-size:9px\">[1] Hoffman J.L, S. Kaplan. The incidence of congenital heart disease.&nbsp;J Am Coll Cardiol.&nbsp;39(12):1890-1900, 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:9px\">[2] Rosenbaum M. Q&amp;A:  Pulmonary Stenosis.\u00a0Adult Congenital Heart Association. (https:\/\/www.achaheart.org\/your-heart\/health-information\/pulmonary-stenosis)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:9px\">[3 ] Ewert, P., Riesenkampff, E., Neuss, M., Kretschmar, O., Nagdyman, N., &amp; Lange, P. E. (2004). Novel growth stent for the permanent treatment of vessel stenosis in growing children: an experimental study. Catheterization and cardiovascular interventions, 62(4), 506-510.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:9px\">[4] Danon, S., R. G. Gray, M. A. Crystal, G. Morgan, D. H. Gruenstein, B. H. Goldstein, and B. M. Gordon. Expansion Characteristics of Stents Used in Congenital Heart. 741\u2013750, 2016.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Background Modified from Pekkan et al., 2005 (doi:10.1161\/CIRCULATIONAHA.104.530931) Congenital heart defects affect nearly 1% of\u2015or about 40,000\u2015births per year in the United States.1 Pulmonary artery stenosis, the narrowing of the pulmonary artery, occurs in 7-10% of congenital heart defects and can occur in isolations or in relation to other conditions2 Children suffering from pulmonary artery &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Problem&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engprojects.tcnj.edu\/adaptive-stent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}