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John Hess

Researcher at Technische Universität München

Publications -  230
Citations -  13952

John Hess is an academic researcher from Technische Universität München. The author has contributed to research in topics: Heart disease & Cardiac catheterization. The author has an hindex of 63, co-authored 230 publications receiving 13150 citations. Previous affiliations of John Hess include Boston Children's Hospital & Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.

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ESC Guidelines for the management of grown-up congenital heart disease (new version 2010).

TL;DR: Experts in the field are selected and undertake a comprehensive review of the published evidence for management and/or prevention of a given condition, including assessment of the risk–benefit ratio.
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Prevalence and clinical outcome of hepatitis C infection in children who underwent cardiac surgery before the implementation of blood-donor screening.

TL;DR: Study of 458 children who underwent cardiac surgery in Munich, Germany, before 1991, when blood-donor screening for hepatitis C was introduced in Germany found that at a mean interval of 19.8 years after the first operation, 37 of the 67 patients who were positive for anti-HCV had detectable HCV RNA in their blood.
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Percutaneous pulmonary valve implantation: two-centre experience with more than 100 patients

TL;DR: This study shows that PPVI is feasible and it improves the haemodynamics in a selected patient collective and the intervention is technically challenging and longer clinical follow-up is needed.
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Coarctation Long-term Assessment (COALA): Significance of arterial hypertension in a cohort of 404 patients up to 27 years after surgical repair of isolated coarctation of the aorta, even in the absence of restenosis and prosthetic material

TL;DR: The majority of patients were hypertensive at long-term follow-up after coarctation repair, and this is caused by restenosis, defined by a gradient of greater than 20 mm Hg, in only a few patients.