Abnormal left heart function after operation for atrial septal defect.
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Abnormal left heart function after operation for atrial septal defect.
Post-operative data have been presented in seven patients with atrial septal defect. In five of them, residual patency of the atrial septum was found at cardiac catheterization, but in two the defect had been closed. All showed evidence of 'left-sided dysfunction', expressed either as an increase in the pulmonary arterial wedge pressure or the left ventricular end-diastolic pressure or both. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: Heart
سال: 1970
ISSN: 1355-6037
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.32.6.747