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SUBMITTER: Geva T
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3036629 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of cardiovascular magnetic resonance : official journal of the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance 20110120
Surgical management of tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) results in anatomic and functional abnormalities in the majority of patients. Although right ventricular volume load due to severe pulmonary regurgitation can be tolerated for many years, there is now evidence that the compensatory mechanisms of the right ventricular myocardium ultimately fail and that if the volume load is not eliminated or reduced by pulmonary valve replacement the dysfunction might be irreversible. Cardiovascular magnetic reson ...[more]