Management of pregnancy in women with acquired and congenital heart disease

SE Bowater, SA Thorne - Postgraduate medical journal, 2010 - academic.oup.com
Heart disease is the leading cause of maternal mortality in the UK. Deaths from acquired
conditions such as ischaemic heart disease are increasing and often occur in patients with …

Long‐term outcome following pregnancy in women with a systemic right ventricle: is the deterioration due to pregnancy or a consequence of time?

SE Bowater, TJ Selman, LE Hudsmith… - Congenital heart …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Introduction. The right ventricle (RV) supports the systemic circulation in patients who have
had an intraatrial repair of transposition of the great arteries or have congenitally corrected …

The safety and effects of bosentan in patients with a Fontan circulation

SE Bowater, RA Weaver, SA Thorne… - Congenital heart …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. Adult patients with a Fontan circulation tend to have diminished exercise capacity.
The principal objective of this study was to investigate the safety of the endothelin receptor …

End-of-life care in adults with congenital heart disease: now is the time to act

SE Bowater, JK Speakman… - Current opinion in …, 2013 - journals.lww.com
End-of-life care in adults with congenital heart disease: no... : Current Opinion in Supportive and
Palliative Care End-of-life care in adults with congenital heart disease: now is the time to act …

Cardiac resynchronization therapy in adults with structural congenital heart disease and chronic heart failure

SE Thompson, LE Hudsmith… - Pacing and Clinical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Aims Evidence for CRT in adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) and chronic heart
failure is limited, with recommendations for its use extrapolated from the population with …

[HTML][HTML] Pregnancy outcomes in patients with a fontan circulation and proposal for a risk-scoring system: single centre experience

S Arif, A Chaudhary, PF Clift, R Katie Morris… - Journal of Congenital …, 2017 - Springer
Background Pregnancy in women with Fontan physiology poses a significant management
challenge and is deemed high risk. The aim of this study is to describe short and long-term …

Assessment of the physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxemia in Eisenmenger syndrome

SE Bowater, RA Weaver, RM Beadle… - Congenital Heart …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Eisenmenger syndrome is characterized by severe and lifelong hypoxemia and
pulmonary hypertension. Despite this, patients do surprisingly well and report a reasonable …

Subacute stent thrombosis successfully treated with thrombolysis and glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibition

SE Bowater, SN Doshi, NP Buller - Heart, 2005 - heart.bmj.com
Objective: To evaluate the pattern of right ventricular (RV) functional recovery and its relation
with left ventricular (LV) function and interventricular septal (IVS) motion in low risk patients …

[HTML][HTML] The use of Macitentan in Fontan circulation: a case report

P Demetriades, A Aziz, R Condliffe, SE Bowater… - BMC Cardiovascular …, 2017 - Springer
Abstract Background The Fontan circulation, a result of a palliative procedure in patients
with single systemic ventricles, is defined by chronically elevated pulmonary vascular …

Physiological adaptations to chronic hypoxemia in eisenmenger syndrome

SE Bowater - 2014 - etheses.bham.ac.uk
Eisenmenger syndrome is characterised by severe, lifelong hypoxaemia and pulmonary
hypertension. Despite this, patients do surprisingly well and report a reasonable quality of …