Publications by authors named "M F Teodori"
Background: Patients with tetralogy of Fallot are now surviving to adulthood with timely surgical intervention. However, many patients in low-income countries have no access to surgical intervention. This paper reports the surgical access and perioperative mortality in a sub-Saharan center that was mainly dependent on visiting teams.
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- Cardiac involvement in human echinococcosis, although rare, can cause severe complications such as cyst rupture, anaphylactic shock, and sudden death.
- A case study of a 9-year-old girl shows she developed a hydatid cyst in the heart's interventricular septum four years after being treated for pulmonary hydatidosis.
- The report discusses her clinical presentation, treatment strategies, and her follow-up care.
Background: The optimal surgical procedure for treatment of fibromembranous subaortic stenosis has been a subject of debate. We report our experience with patients treated for membranous subaortic stenosis using membrane resection alone and membrane resection plus aggressive septal myectomy.
Methods: Patients followed in the pediatric cardiology clinic of a university hospital, who had undergone surgery for subaortic stenosis between 2002 and 2013 were reviewed.
Pulmonary artery aneurysm with patent arterial duct: resection of aneurysm and ductal division.
World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg
October 2013
Congenital or acquired aneurysm of the pulmonary artery (PA) is rare. Although aneurysms are described following surgical treatment of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), occurrence of this lesion in association with PDA without previous surgery is extremely uncommon. An eight-year-old patient with PDA and aneurysm of the main PA is described in this report.
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