Fetal surgery for cardiac lesions |
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| Authors: | Wolfgang Arzt Gerald Tulzer |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Prenatal Medicine, Women's and Children's Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria;2. Department of Pediatric Cardiology, Women's and Children's Hospital Linz, Linz, Austria |
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| Abstract: | Intrauterine dilation of critical fetal aortic stenosis (AS) and pulmonary stenosis or atresia has the potential to change the natural course of these congenital heart defects preventing progression to a single ventricle circulation. This article reviews the world experience in fetal cardiac interventions. In carefully selected cases, fetal cardiac surgery can reverse end-stage heart failure and can provide biventricular outcome postnatally in about two thirds of the cases with successful interventions. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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| Keywords: | fetal therapy echocardiography intracardiac interventions |
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