A restrictive ventilatory pattern is common in patients with univentricular heart after Fontan palliation and associated with a reduced exercise capacity and quality of life

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2019, Pages 147-155

  Callegari, Alessia ^a,b,c   Neidenbach, Rhoia ^b   Milanesi, Ornella ^a   Castaldi, Biagio ^a   Christmann, Martin ^c   Ono, Masamichi ^b   Müller, Jan ^b   Ewert, Peter ^b   Hager, Alfred ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

CPET; Fontan; quality of life; spirometry; ventilatory function

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; ATRIOPULMONARY CONNECTION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONNECTION; BODY MASS; BODY PAIN; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOPULMONARY EXERCISE TEST; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HEALTH STATUS; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESTRICTIVE VENTILATORY PATTERN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCOLIOSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHORT FORM 36; SPIROMETRY; SYSTEMIC PULMONARY SHUNT; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; CARDIAC OUTPUT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 85055875185     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12694     Document Type: Article

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