Predictors of technical success and postnatal biventricular outcome after in utero aortic valvuloplasty for aortic stenosis with evolving hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Circulation

Volumn 120, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1482-1490

  McElhinney, Doff B ^a   Marshall, Audrey C ^a   Wilkins Haug, Louise E ^b   Brown, David W ^a   Benson, Carol B ^b   Silva, Virginia ^b   Marx, Gerald R ^a   Mizrahi Arnaud, Arielle ^a   Lock, James E ^a   Tworetzky, Wayne ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital; Fetus; Heart defects; Hypoplastic left heart syndrome; Stenosis; Valvuloplasty

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CIRCULATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART; HEART DEVELOPMENT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IN UTERO AORTIC VALVULOPLASTY; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREGNANCY; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTIC VALVE; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FETAL HEART; FETOSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 70350127966     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.109.848994     Document Type: Article

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