Right-to-left shunt through the cardiac veins after the Fontan procedure

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 416-418

  Uemura, Hideki ^a   Yagihara, Toshikatsu ^a   Monta, Osamu ^a  

^a NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cardiac vein; Fenestrated Fontan; Fontan procedure; Residual shunt; Total cavopulmonary connection

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VEIN;

BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; DOUBLE OUTLET RIGHT VENTRICLE; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OXYGEN; VEINS;

EID: 0034296857     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1047951100009756     Document Type: Article

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