2020 ESC Guidelines for the management of adult congenital heart disease: the Task Force for the management of adult congenital heart disease of the European …

…, JW Roos-Hesselink, M Schwerzmann… - European heart …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Force. The finalized document is approved by the CPG for publication in the European Heart
Journal. The Guidelines were developed after careful consideration of the scientific and …

[HTML][HTML] Recurrent rearrangements of chromosome 1q21. 1 and variable pediatric phenotypes

…, A Broomer, B Conrad, M Schwerzmann… - … England Journal of …, 2008 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Duplications and deletions in the human genome can cause disease or
predispose persons to disease. Advances in technologies to detect these changes allow for the …

Comparison of medical treatment with percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale in patients with cryptogenic stroke

…, K Nedeltchev, M Arnold, M Schwerzmann… - Journal of the American …, 2004 - jacc.org
Objectives : The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of medical treatment with
percutaneous closure of patent foramen ovale (PFO). Background : Patients with cryptogenic …

Risk of decompression illness among 230 divers in relation to the presence and size of patent foramen ovale

SR Torti, M Billinger, M Schwerzmann… - European heart …, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Background The risk of developing decompression illness (DCI) in divers with a patent
foramen ovale (PFO) has not been directly determined so far; neither has it been assessed in …

Canadian Cardiovascular Society 2009 Consensus Conference on the management of adults with congenital heart disease: executive summary

…, K Niwa, E Oechslin, N Poirier, M Schwerzmann… - Canadian journal of …, 2010 - Elsevier
With advances in pediatric cardiology and cardiac surgery, the population of adults with
congenital heart disease (CHD) has increased. In the current era, there are more adults with …

Right ventricular systolic function assessment: rank of echocardiographic methods vs. cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

…, C Eigenmann, M Schwerzmann… - European Journal of …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Aims Right ventricular (RV) systolic function is prognostically important, but its assessment
by echocardiography remains challenging, in part because of the multitude of available …

Cerebrovascular accidents in adult patients with congenital heart disease

…, K Dimopoulos, R Engel, M Schmid, M Schwerzmann… - Heart, 2010 - heart.bmj.com
Objective To investigate the prevalence and characteristics of cerebrovascular accidents (CVA)
in a large population of adults with congenital heart disease (CHD). Methods and results …

Relation between directly detected patent foramen ovale and ischemic brain lesions in sport divers

M Schwerzmann, C Seiler, E Lipp… - Annals of Internal …, 2001 - acpjournals.org
Background: In divers, the significance of a patent foramen ovale and its potential relation to
paradoxical gas emboli remain uncertain. Objective: To assess the prevalence of symptoms …

Improvements in cardiac form and function after transcatheter closure of secundum atrial septal defects

O Salehian, E Horlick, M Schwerzmann… - Journal of the American …, 2005 - jacc.org
Objectives : We set out to study the effect of transcatheter closure of atrial septal defect (ASD)
on right ventricular (RV) and left ventricular (LV) function assessed by myocardial …

Ventricular arrhythmias and sudden death in adults after a Mustard operation for transposition of the great arteries

M Schwerzmann, O Salehian, L Harris… - European heart …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
Aims To examine the prevalence of sustained ventricular tachycardia (VT) and sudden death
(SD) in adults with atrial repair of transposition of the great arteries (TGA) and to determine …