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Repair of Ventricular Septal Defect with Eisenmenger Syndrome After Bosentan Treatment
Author(s) -
Hu Lei,
Tan Linhua,
Ye Jing
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of cardiac surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.428
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1540-8191
pISSN - 0886-0440
DOI - 10.1111/jocs.12325
Subject(s) - bosentan , medicine , eisenmenger syndrome , cardiology , pulmonary hypertension , surgery , endothelin receptor , receptor
We report a patient with ventricular septal defect (VSD) and Eisenmenger syndrome. The patient was treated with bosentan for 12 weeks, with a decrease in pulmonary vascular resistance index (PRVi) from 18.84 to 9.63 Wood unit (WU) m 2 , and underwent successful corrective repair of the VSD after 12 weeks of bosentan therapy. doi: 10.1111/jocs.12325 (J Card Surg 2014;29:401–402)