Considerations of a one-and-one-half ventricle repair in a 47-year-old patient.
This report describes the management of a 47-year-old patient with Ebstein's anomaly and severe right ventricular dysfunction. Her complicated postoperative course is discussed. In addition, age-related differences in the hemodynamic response to a one-and-one-half ventricle repair are reviewed.
Joffe
Denise
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Anesthesiology, Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center and The University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA 98105, USA. denise.Joffe@seattlechildrens.org
Gurvitz
Michelle
M
Stout
Karen
K
D000367:Age Factors; D006328:Cardiac Catheterization; D006348:Cardiac Surgical Procedures / Q000009:adverse effects; D004437:Ebstein Anomaly / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D004452:Echocardiography; D005260:Female; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D006352:Heart Ventricles / Q000601:surgery; D006439:Hemodynamics; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011788:Quality of Life; D020127:Recovery of Function; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D018497:Ventricular Dysfunction, Right / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery