Severity Indices of Right Coronary Cusp Prolapse and Aortic Regurgitation Complicating Ventricular Septal Defect in the Outlet Septum: Which Defect Should Be Closed?

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-143

  Tomita, Hideshi ^a,b   Arakaki, Yoshio ^a   Ono, Yasuo ^a   Yamada, Osamu ^a   Yagihara, Toshikatsu ^a   Echigo, Shigeyuki ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aortic regurgitation; Right coronary cusp prolapse; Ventricular septal defect

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA VALVE PROLAPSE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VALVULOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTIC VALVE PROLAPSE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 1042268125     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.139     Document Type: Article

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