Acute angulation of the aortic arch predisposes a patient to ascending aortic dilatation and aortic regurgitation late after the arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 135, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 568-572

  Agnoletti, Gabriella ^a   Ou, Phalla ^a   Celermajer, David S ^b   Boudjemline, Younes ^a   Marini, Davide ^a   Bonnet, Damien ^a   Aggoun, Yacine ^c  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c Hopital des Enfants Hopitaux universitaires de Geneve   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA SURGERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; TONOMETRY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTA; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; AORTOGRAPHY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40349100312     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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