Why the study?
Does surgical treatment improve clinical and radiographic outcomes in patients with left ventricular/right atrial communication?
Population
15 patients with left ventricular/right atrial communication
Design
Case_series
Authors
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May support surgical repair in LV-RA communication; hypothesis-generating from small case series and should not yet change practice.
Does surgical treatment improve clinical and radiographic outcomes in patients with left ventricular/right atrial communication?
Surgical treatment of left ventricular/right atrial communication is associated with good survival and regression of cardiac enlargement and hypertrophy.
Barclay et al. (1967) studied this question.
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