Update on tetralogy of fallot for the adult cardiologist including a brief historical and surgical perspective

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 208-219

  Kalra, Nishant ^a   Klewer, Scott E ^b   Raasch, Hannah ^c   Sorrell, Vincent L ^b  

^a Division of Cardiology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Right ventricular outflow tract; Tetralogy of fallot

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTIC ROOT DILATATION; AORTOPULMONARY SHUNT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOLOGIST; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXERCISE TEST; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSFUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT ANEURYSM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE WALL MOTION ABNORMALITY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVULOPLASTY; SIDE TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; STENOSIS; STENT; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTEMIC PULMONARY SHUNT; TELEMETRY; THORACOTOMY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ADULT; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HEART SURGERY; HISTORY; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; SURVIVOR; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; SURVIVORS; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954099246     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2010.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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