Pulmonary valve cusp augmentation with autologous pericardium may improve early outcome for tetralogy of Fallot.

Anagnostopoulos, Petros; Azakie, Anthony; Natarajan, Shobha; Alphonso, Nelson; Brook, Michael M; Karl, Tom R

Anagnostopoulos, Petros; Azakie, Anthony; Natarajan, Shobha; Alphonso, Nelson; Brook, Michael M; Karl, Tom R.

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Anagnostopoulos P; Division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Heart Center, University of California at San Francisco Children's Hospital, San Francisco, Calif, USA.

J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg ; 133(3): 640-7, 2007 Mar.

Article in En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17320558

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Pericardium/transplantation; Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency/prevention & control; Pulmonary Valve/surgery; Tetralogy of Fallot/surgery; Analysis of Variance; Cardiac Surgical Procedures/methods; Cardiac Surgical Procedures/mortality; Cohort Studies; Echocardiography, Doppler; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Humans; Infant; Intensive Care Units, Neonatal; Male; Postoperative Complications/prevention & control; Probability; Retrospective Studies; Risk Assessment; Statistics, Nonparametric; Survival Analysis; Tetralogy of Fallot/diagnostic imaging; Tetralogy of Fallot/mortality; Transplantation, Autologous; Treatment Outcome

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Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pericardium / Pulmonary Valve / Pulmonary Valve Insufficiency / Tetralogy of Fallot Type of study: Etiology_studies / Incidence_studies / Observational_studies / Prognostic_studies Limits: Female / Humans / Infant / Male Language: En Year: 2007 Type: Article

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