Amir-Reza Hosseinpour1, Marie-Hélène Perez2, David Longchamp2, Jacques Cotting2, Nicole Sekarski3, Michel Hurni1, René Prêtre1, Stefano Di Bernardo3
Congenital Heart Disease, Vol.13, No.2, pp. 210-216, 2018, DOI:10.1111/chd.12545
Abstract Objective: Congenital cardiac malformations with high pulmonary blood flow and pressure due to
left-to-right shunts are usually repaired in early infancy for both the benefits of early relief of heart
failure and the fear that the concomitant pulmonary hypertension may become irreversible unless
these defects are corrected at an early age. Age, however, has been a poor predictor of irreversibility of pulmonary hypertension in our experience, which is presented here.
Design: A retrospective observational study. We defined “late” as age ≥2 years. We examined
clinical, echocardiographic, and hemodynamic data from all patients aged ≥2 years with such
malformations referred to… More >
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