Early age at repair prevents restrictive right ventricular (RV) physiology after surgery for tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
Diastolic RV function after TOF repair in infancy
Peter Munkhammar, MDa,
Shay Cullen, MRCPc,
Peeter Jögi, MDb,
Marc de Leval, MD, FRCSd,
Martin Elliott, MD, FRCSd and
Gunnar Norgård, MD, PhDa
a Department of Pediatric Cardiology, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden
b Department of Thoracic Surgery, University Hospital of Lund, Lund, Sweden
c Department ofCardiology, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, NHS Trust and the Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom
d Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, NHS Trust and the Institute of Child Health, London, United Kingdom

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Figure 1 Transannular patch repair and subsequent restrictive RV physiology versus age at repair.
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Figure 2 Type of outflow patch repair and subsequent diastolic RV physiology.
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