Pulmonary valve replacement in adult patients with a severely dilated right ventricle and refractory arrhythmias after repair of tetralogy of fallot

Circulation Journal

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2135-2142

  Miyazaki, Aya ^a   Yamamoto, Masaki ^a   Sakaguchi, Heima ^a   Tsukano, Shinya ^a,b   Kagisaki, Koji ^a   Suyama, Kazuhiro ^a   Ohuchi, Hideo ^a   Kurosaki, Ken Ichi ^a   Yagihara, Toshikatsu ^a   Yamada, Osamu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b Niigata Prefectural Shibata Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Pulmonary valve replacement; Right ventricular dysfunction; Tetralogy of fallot

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; MEXILETINE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART INDEX; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; PULMONARY VALVE REPLACEMENT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOPROSTHESIS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; HYPERTROPHY, RIGHT VENTRICULAR; JAPAN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 73249124984     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0164     Document Type: Article

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