Publications by authors named "A Capderou"
Background: Early detection of right ventricular (RV) failure is required to improve the management of patients with congenital heart diseases. The aim of this study was to validate echocardiography for the early detection of overloaded RV dysfunction, compared with hemodynamic and myocyte contractility assessment.
Methods: Using a porcine model reproducing repaired tetralogy of Fallot, RV function was evaluated over 4 months using standard echocardiography and speckle-tracking compared with hemodynamic parameters (conductance catheter).
Background: The long-term effectiveness of pulmonary arterial hypertension-specific drug therapy (PAH-SDT) in Eisenmenger syndrome is controversial. We investigated short-term and long-term hemodynamic changes under PAH-SDT and their associations with outcomes in a bicentric cohort.
Methods: Over 20 years, we included 69 patients with congenital heart disease, an indexed pulmonary vascular resistance (PVRi) >8 WU·m, and 292 standardized catheterizations at baseline and after PAH-SDT initiation or intensification.
Background: The objective of this study was to examine early and long-term results of surgical aortic valvotomy in neonates and infants aged less than four months and to identify predictors of outcome.
Methods: Between August 1994 and April 2012, 83 consecutive patients younger than 4 months of age underwent open heart valvotomy for critical aortic stenosis in our institution. Median age was 17 days (range 0-111 days).
Objectives: Long-term outcomes after the arterial switch operation (ASO) for complex transposition of the great arteries (TGA) should be clarified.
Methods: A retrospective study was conducted in patients operated on between 1982 and 1998. Overall 220 postoperative survivors, 79.