Transcatheter fenestration of hemi-Fontan baffles after completion of Fontan physiology using balloon dilatation and stent placement

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 429-432

  Miga, Daniel E ^a   Clark, John M ^a   Cowart, Kathryn S ^a   Radtke, Wolfgang A K ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter intervention; Fontan fenestration; Stent

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; REOPERATION; STENT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE;

BALLOON DILATATION; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIA; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031955378     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199804)43:4<429::AID-CCD15>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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