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Comprehensive Approach to the Management of Patients With Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Analysis of 100 Consecutive Neonates by Bleiweis, Mark Steven, Co-Vu, Jennifer, Philip, Joseph, Fudge, James C., Vyas, Himesh V., Pitkin, Andrew D., Janelle, Gregory M., Sullivan, Kevin J., DeGroff, Curt J., Gupta, Dipankar, Coppola, John-Anthony, Pietra, Biagio “Bill” A., Fricker, Frederick Jay, Cruz Beltrán, Susana C., Peek, Giles J., Jacobs, Jeffrey Phillip

“…We report our comprehensive approach to the management of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) and describe our outcomes in 100 consecutive…”
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Doppler Echocardiography Inaccurately Estimates Right Ventricular Pressure in Children with Elevated Right Heart Pressure by DeGroff, Curt G., MD, MSEE

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Transesophageal Echocardiography in Critically Ill Acute Postoperative Infants: Comparison of AcuNav Intracardiac Echocardiographic and microTEE Miniaturized Transducers by DeGroff, Curt G., MD, MSEE

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Letter by DeGroff regarding article, "Rheumatic heart disease screening by echocardiography: The inadequacy of World Health Organization criteria for optimizing the diagnosis of subclinical disease" by DeGroff, Curt G

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Left Ventricular Systolic Dyssynchrony in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients with Congestive Heart Failure by DeGroff, Curt G., MD, MSEE, FASE

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Letter by DeGroff regarding article, "Direction of preoperative ventricular shunting affects ventricular mechanics after Tetralogy of Fallot repair" by Degroff, Curt G

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Optimization of inflow waveform phase-difference for minimized total cavopulmonary power loss by Dur, Onur, DeGroff, Curt G, Keller, Bradley B, Pekkan, Kerem

“…The Fontan operation is a palliative surgical procedure performed on children, born with congenital heart defects that have yielded only a single functioning…”
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Artificial neural network-based method of screening heart murmurs in children by DEGROFF, Curt G, BHATIKAR, Sanjay, HERTZBERG, Jean, SHANDAS, Robin, VALDES-CRUZ, Lilliam, MAHAJAN, Roop L

“…Early recognition of heart disease is an important goal in pediatrics. Efforts in developing an inexpensive screening device that can assist in the…”
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Adult Definitions for Dyssynchrony Are Inappropriate for Pediatric Patients by Misra, Nilanjana, Webber, Steven A., DeGroff, Curt G.

“…Background: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is a promising approach to improve cardiac function in children in heart failure with cardiomyopathy…”
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Minimal Sedation Second Dose Strategy With Intranasal Midazolam in an Outpatient Pediatric Echocardiographic Setting by Lazol, Judith P., MD, DeGroff, Curt G., MD, MSEE

“…Background Anxiety and movement in children during transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) can compromise study quality and reliability. Minimal sedation is often…”
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A classifier based on the artificial neural network approach for cardiologic auscultation in pediatrics by Bhatikar, Sanjay R., DeGroff, Curt, Mahajan, Roop L.

“…This research work was aimed at developing a reliable screening device for diagnosis of heart murmurs in pediatrics. This is a significant problem in pediatric…”
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Pulsatile venous waveform quality affects the conduit performance in functional and "failing" Fontan circulations by Dur, Onur, Kocyildirim, Ergin, Soran, Ozlem, Wearden, Peter D, Morell, Victor O, DeGroff, Curt G, Pekkan, Kerem

“…To investigate the effect of pulsatility of venous flow waveform in the inferior and superior caval vessels on the performance of functional and "failing"…”
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Regional myocardial velocities and isovolumic contraction acceleration before and after device closure of atrial septal defects: A color tissue Doppler study by Pauliks, Linda B., Chan, Kak-Chen, Chang, Dennis, Kirby, Scott K., Logan, Loralee, DeGroff, Curt G., Boucek, Mark M., Valdes-Cruz, Lilliam M.

“…The study analyzed the effect of atrial septal defect (ASD) device closure on regional wall motion in the right (RV) and left ventricles (LV) using color…”
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Influence of connection geometry and SVC-IVC flow rate ratio on flow structures within the total cavopulmonary connection: a numerical study by Khunatorn, Yottana, Mahalingam, Shankar, DeGroff, Curt G, Shandas, Robin

“…The total cavopulmonary connection (TCPC) is a palliative cardiothoracic surgical procedure used in patients with one functioning ventricle that excludes the…”
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Non-invasive detection of acute allograft rejection in children by tissue Doppler imaging: myocardial velocities and myocardial acceleration during isovolumic contraction by Pauliks, Linda B, Pietra, Biagio A, DeGroff, Curt G, Kirby, Kenneth Scott, Knudson, Ole A, Logan, Loralee, Boucek, Mark M, Valdes-Cruz, Lilliam M

“…In adults, an acute decrease of regional myocardial velocities is a sensitive marker of rejection. In children, velocities are more variable. A new marker,…”
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Altered ventricular mechanics in cardiac allografts: a tissue Doppler study in 30 children without prior rejection events by Pauliks, Linda B, Pietra, Bill A, Kirby, Scott, Logan, Loralee, DeGroff, Curt G, Boucek, Mark M, Valdes-Cruz, Lilliam M

“…Tissue Doppler imaging (TDI), a non-invasive echocardiography technique, permits quantitative analysis of the regional distribution pattern of myocardial…”
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Insights into the effect of aortic compliance on Doppler diastolic flow patterns seen in coarctation of the aorta: a numeric study by DeGroff, Curt G, Orlando, Wendy, Shandas, Robin

“…In the echocardiographic evaluation of coarctation of the aorta, the degree of antegrade diastolic flow (diastolic runoff) noted on spectral Doppler tracings…”
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Development of a noninvasive ultrasound color M-mode means of estimating pulmonary vascular resistance in pediatric pulmonary hypertension: Mathematical analysis, in vitro validation, and preliminary clinical studies by SHANDAS, Robin, WEINBERG, Craig, IVY, D. Dunbar, NICOL, Ewen, DEGROFF, Curt G, HERTZBERG, Jean, VALDES-CRUZ, Lilliam

“…Accurate determination of pulmonary vascular resistance (PVR) is an important component in the evaluation and treatment of pediatric patients with pulmonary…”
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Computational simulations of the total cavo-pulmonary connection: insights in optimizing numerical solutions by DeGroff, Curt, Birnbaum, Brian, Shandas, Robin, Orlando, Wendy, Hertzberg, Jean

“…The Fontan procedure is a palliative surgical technique that is used to treat patients with congenital heart defects that include complex lesions such as those…”
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Designing the optimal Total Cavopulmonary Connection: pulsatile versus steady flow experiments by DeGroff, Curt G, Shandas, Robin

“…The Total Cavopulmonary Connection (TCPC), used for repair of patients with single ventricle physiology, creates a passive system of blood flow into the…”
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