Cardiac catheterization in diagnosis and management of congenital heart disease in thoracopagus conjoined twins

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 159-167

  McMahon, Colin J ^a   Mullins, Charles E ^a   Vick III, G Wesley ^a   Caville, Cecille C ^a   Bezold, Louis I ^a   Nihill, Michael R ^a,b  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Conjoined twin; Thoracopagus

Indexed keywords

KETAMINE; LIDOCAINE; MORPHINE; PANCURONIUM; PENTOBARBITAL; PETHIDINE; PROMETHAZINE;

ACIDOSIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONJOINED TWINS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; INFANT; KIDNEY DISEASE; MALE; NEWBORN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PNEUMONIA; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEDATION; SEPSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; THORAX; TWINS, CONJOINED;

EID: 0033770491     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-726X(200010)51:2<159::AID-CCD6>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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