Background Eisenmenger syndrome (ES) is a severe and fatal complication of uncorrected congenital heart disease characterised ...

PH develops when chronic pulmonary vascular stress (e.g., increased pulmonary blood flow or pulmonary pressure, hypoxia, pulmonary vascular obstruction, primary endothelial dysfunction) leads to ...

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Abstract: This paper introduces a rat-race coupler, with size reduction and bandwidth enhancement, using shunt capacitors, high impedance lines and Composite Right/Left-Handed Transmission Lines (CRLH ...

1 Division of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Department of Cardiology and Vascular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Universitas Indonesia/National Cardiovascular Centre Harapan Kita, ...

The authors describe a case of an infrequent triple association: left pulmonary artery aneurysm (PAA), uncorrected tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA), diagnosed in a ...

Background: Stroke is the leading cause of adult disability worldwide, with approximately 30% of strokes remaining cryptogenic. One potential important etiology is a patent foramen ovale (PFO), which ...

Right-to-left shunt, mainly due to patent foramen ovale (PFO), is likely responsible for ≈5% of all ischemic strokes and 10% of those occurring in young and middle-aged adults. Randomized clinical ...