Does the dilated ascending aorta in an adult with congenital heart disease require intervention?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 140, Issue 6 SUPPL., 2010, Pages

  Stulak, John M ^a   Dearani, Joseph A ^a   Burkhart, Harold M ^a   Sundt, Thoralf M ^a   Connolly, Heidi M ^a   Schaff, Hartzell V ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA DISEASE; AORTA DISSECTION; AORTA GRAFT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTIC ROOT SURGERY; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; AORTOPLASTY; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ASCENDING AORTA; ASCENDING AORTA DILATATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; REOPERATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM, DISSECTING; AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC VALVE; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; PATIENT SELECTION; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649338288     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.08.052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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