Total cavopulmonary connection flow with functional left pulmonary artery stenosis: angioplasty and fenestration in vitro.

BACKGROUND: In our multicenter study of the total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC), a cohort of patients with long-segment left pulmonary artery (LPA) stenosis was observed (35%). The clinically recognized detrimental effects of LPA stenosis motivated a computational fluid dynamic simulation study wi...

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Published in:Circulation Vol. 112; no. 21; pp. 3264 - 3272
Main Authors: Pekkan K, Kitajima HD, de Zelicourt D, Forbess JM, Parks WJ, Fogel MA, Sharma S, Kanter KR, Frakes D, Yoganathan AP
Format: research Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2005 Nov 22
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