Addition of a small curvature reduces power losses across total cavopulmonary connections

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1760-1764

  Gerdes, Anja ^a   Kunze, Jörg ^b   Pfister, Gerd ^b   Sievers, Hans Hinrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LÜBECK   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG RESISTANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

AGE FACTORS; BIOPHYSICS; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRESSURE; PULMONARY ARTERY; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0033031298     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00323-9     Document Type: Article

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