Pediatric Subvalvar Aortic Stenosis Medication

  • Author: Douglas J Schneider, MD; more...
 
Updated: Mar 29, 2011
 
 

Medication Summary

SAS is treated surgically.

 
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Author

Douglas J Schneider, MD  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Clinical Tract, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Kentucky College of Medicine; Director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Kentucky Children's Hospital

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose.

Coauthor(s)

Gautam K Singh, MD, DCh, MRCP, FACC  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, Director of Noninvasive Imaging Research, Co-director of Echocardiography Laboratory, Washington University School of Medicine; Attending Faculty, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, St Louis Children's Hospital

Gautam K Singh, MD, DCh, MRCP, FACC is a member of the following medical societies: American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, American Society of Echocardiography, and Royal College of Physicians

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Specialty Editor Board

Paul M Seib, MD  Associate Professor of Pediatrics, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; Medical Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Co-Medical Director, Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit, Arkansas Children's Hospital

Paul M Seib, MD is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association, Arkansas Medical Society, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

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Mary L Windle, PharmD  Adjunct Associate Professor, University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Pharmacy; Pharmacy Editor, eMedicine

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John W Moore, MD, MPH  Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Section of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of California San Diego School of Medicine; Director of Cardiology, Rady Children's Hospital

John W Moore, MD, MPH is a member of the following medical societies: American Academy of Pediatrics, American College of Cardiology, and Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions

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Echocardiogram of membranous subaortic stenosis. AO = aortic; LA = left atrium; LVOT = left ventricular outflow tract.
Tunnel-type of subaortic stenosis (subvalvular aortic stenosis [SAS]). MV = mitral valve.
 
 
 
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