Managing the right ventricular outflow tract for pulmonary regurgitation after tetralogy of Fallot repair

Heart Asia

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 106-111

  Hauser, Michael ^a   Eicken, Andreas ^a   Kuehn, Andreas ^a   Hess, John ^a   Fratz, Sohrab ^a   Ewert, Peter ^a   Kaemmerer, Harald ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EXERCISE TEST; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULMONARY VALVE REPLACEMENT; REOPERATION; REVIEW; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

EID: 84879826951     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17591104     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartasia-2013-010319     Document Type: Review

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