Does right ventricular outflow tract damage play a role in the genesis of late right ventricular dilatation after tetralogy of Fallot repair?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 555-561

  D'Udekem D'Acoz, Yves ^a   Pasquet, Agnes ^b   Lebreux, Laurent ^b   Ovaert, Caroline ^b   Mascart, Françoise ^b   Robert, Annie ^b   Rubay, Jean E ^b  

^a CLINIQUES UNIVERSITAIRES SAINT LUC   (Belgium)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATHOGENESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 0042158332     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00434-X     Document Type: Article

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