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Pediatric Cardiology and Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Michael J. Landzberg, MD, FACC^_*,_* and Ross Ungerleider, MD, FACC

^_* Department of Cardiology, Children’s Hospital, Boston Massachusetts
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, Oregon.

View larger version (20K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Impact of left ventricular dysfunction on survival in Eisenmenger syndrome. In a study of 122 patients, left ventricular dysfunction was a strong predictor of mortality. Patients with a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) <50% demonstrated a sharply shortened survival curve compared to Eisenmenger patients with LVEF 50%. Reprinted with permission (5).