Artigo Revisado por pares

Batista strikes again to tackle Eisenmenger complex

1997; Elsevier BV; Volume: 349; Issue: 9065 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/s0140-6736(97)23022-9

ISSN

1474-547X

Autores

Cláudio Csillag,

Tópico(s)

Metalloenzymes and iron-sulfur proteins

Resumo

Two visits to the operating theatre for fairly simple surgery may be a cheap and possibly permanent treatment for patients with the Eisenmenger complex. Previously, cardiopulmonary transplantation was the only way to help patients with ventricular septal defect associated with pulmonary hypertension. But now, Randas Batista and colleagues (Hospital Angelina Caron, Campina Grande do Sul, Brazil), have successfully reversed pulmonary hypertension in a 19-year-old woman with a congenital ventricular septal defect and an atrial septal defect.

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