Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 18-23 , February 2006

Neonatal Isolated Critical Aortic Valve Stenosis: Balloon Valvuloplasty or Surgical Valvotomy

  • Zarin Zain, MB, M Med Paeds

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Mariutzka Zadinello, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Melbourne, Australia
    • ,
  • Samuel Menahem, MD, FRACP, FACC

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Royal Children's Hospital, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Vic. 3052, Melbourne, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 3 9345 5712; fax: +61 3 9345 6001.
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  • Christian Brizard, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiac Surgery, Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia

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☆ Presented in part at the World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, Toronto, May 2001.

PII: S1443-9506(05)00046-6

doi: 10.1016/j.hlc.2005.02.003

Heart, Lung and Circulation
Volume 15, Issue 1 , Pages 18-23 , February 2006

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