Fetoscopic direct fetal cardiac access in sheep: An important experimental milestone along the route to human fetal cardiac intervention

Circulation

Volumn 102, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 1602-1604

  Kohl, Thomas ^a   Strümper, Danja ^a   Witteler, Ralf ^a   Merschhoff, Gregor ^a   Alexiene, Rasa ^a   Callenbeck, Claudia ^a   Asfour, Boulos ^a   Reckers, Julia ^a   Aryee, Sebastian ^a   Vahlhaus, Christian ^a   Vogt, Johannes ^a   Van Aken, Hugo ^a   Scheld, Hans H ^a  

^a INST OF REPRO MED OF THE UNIV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Fetoscopy; Fetus; Pacing; Stenosis; Thoracotomy; Valves; Valvuloplasty

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETOSCOPY; FETUS; FETUS DISTRESS; FETUS MONITORING; FETUS MORTALITY; FETUS SURGERY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART SURGERY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TERATOMA; VALVULOPLASTY;

EID: 0034601736     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.102.14.1602     Document Type: Article

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