Chronic pulmonary valve insufficiency after repaired Tetralogy of Fallot: Diagnostics, reoperations and reconstruction possibilities

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 221-230

  Kadner, Alexander ^a   Tulevski, Igor I ^b   Bauersfeld, Urs ^a   Prêtre, René ^a   Valsangiacomo Buechel, Emanuela R ^a   Dodge Khatami, Ali ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Magnetic resonance imaging; Pulmonary insufficiency; Right ventricle; Right ventricle pulmonary artery conduits; Surgery; Tetralogy of Fallot

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTIFICIAL HEART; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; JUGULAR VEIN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33947623191     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/14779072.5.2.221     Document Type: Review

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