Echocardiographic Features of Right Heart Failure in Infancy and Childhood |
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| Authors: | THOMAS G. DI SESSA M.D. MUBADDA A. SALIM M.D. BRUCE S. ALPERT M.D. |
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| Affiliation: | The Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Tennessee School of Medicine, Memphis, Tennessee |
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| Abstract: | In infants and children, right heart failure is most frequently a consequence of increased afterload (pulmonary hypertension). However, it is also observed as a sequela of congenital cardiovascular surgery. The purpose of this report is to present the causes of right heart dysfunction in children and to define the echo-Doppler methods used in the evaluation of right heart failure. |
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| Keywords: | right ventricular failure pulmonary artery failure congenital heart disease |
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