Heparin as a risk factor for perigraft seroma complicating the modified blalock-taussig shunt

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 286-293

  Berger, R M F ^a,c   Bol Raap, G ^b   Hop, W J C ^a   Bogers, A J J C ^b   Hess, J ^a  

^a SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b and Epidemiology and Biostatistics   (Netherlands)

^c Erasmus University Rotterdam ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG ATRESIA; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLITEF IMPLANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEROMA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXUDATES AND TRANSUDATES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEPARIN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ATRESIA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0031819151     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5223(98)70129-1     Document Type: Article

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