Long-term outcome of patients with ventricular septal defect considered not to require surgical closure during childhood

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1066-1071

  Gabriel, Harald ^a   Heger, Maria ^a   Innerhofer, Petra ^a   Zehetgruber, Manfred ^a   Mundigler, Gerald ^a   Wimmer, Maria ^a   Maurer, Gerald ^a   Baumgartner, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AUSTRIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ENDOCARDITIS; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0037139281     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01706-0     Document Type: Article

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