Can we predict sudden cardiac death in long-term survivors of atrial switch surgery for transposition of the great arteries?

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 326-332

  Wheeler, Miriam ^a   Grigg, Leeanne ^a   Zentner, Dominica ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cardiac; Congenital heart disease; Death; Defibrillator; Implantable; Mustard repair; Senning repair; Sudden; Transposition of the great arteries

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIAL BAFFLE SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MUSTARD OPERATION; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENNING OPERATION; SUDDEN CARDIAC DEATH; SURVIVOR; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIOVERSION; COMPLICATION; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEVICES; HEART PACING; INFANT; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RISK FACTOR; TIME; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVORS; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84905591323     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12145     Document Type: Article

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