Frank Hanley
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Induced fibrillation is equally effective as crystalloid cardioplegia in the protection of fetal myocardial function.
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2003; (6): 1276-82
Fetal cardiac intervention represents a potential advance in the treatment of congenital cardiac lesions that increase in complexity during development. Prenatal repair of a primary defect might prevent pathologic blood-flow patterns that can result in hypoplasia of a cardiac chamber or great vessel. However, strategies to optimize fetal myocardial protection have not been studied. A biventricular working fetal heart preparation was used to evaluate the cardioprotective properties of induced fibrillation and crystalloid cardioplegia.
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