Changes in pulmonary artery size before and after total cavopulmonary connection

Heart

Volumn 78, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 488-492

  Buheitel, Gernot ^a   Hofbeck, Michael ^a   Tenbrink, Ursula ^a   Leipold, Georg ^a   Von der Emde, Jürgen ^b   Singer, Helmut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Pulmonary arteriolar resistance; Pulmonary artery size; Total cavopulmonary connection

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY; LUNG RESISTANCE; NEWBORN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

EID: 0030782688     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.78.5.488     Document Type: Article

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