How to grow a heart: Fibreoptic guided fetal aortic valvotomy

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 16, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2006, Pages 43-46

  Suh, Elsa ^a   Quintessenza, James ^a   Huhta, James ^a   Quintero, Ruben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic stenosis; Diastolic dysfunction; Endocardial fibroelastosis

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; FENTANYL; PROSTAGLANDIN; VECURONIUM;

AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEATH; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FETUS; FIBER OPTICS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INFORMED CONSENT; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEDATION; SEPSIS; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; VALVULOTOMY; DELIVERY; ENDOCARDIAL FIBROELASTOSIS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC VOLUME; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; REOPERATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETUS HEART; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FIBER OPTICS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MYOCARDIAL CONTRACTION; PREGNANCY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, PRENATAL;

EID: 33646181882     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951105002313     Document Type: Article

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