Neonatal complete correction of tetralogy of Fallot versus shunting and deferred repair: Is the future of the right ventriculo-arterial junction at stake, and what of it?

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 484-490

  Dodge Khatami, A ^a   Tulevski, I I ^a   Hitchcock, J F ^b   De Mol, B A J M ^a   Bennink, G B W E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; REOPERATION; REVIEW; TIME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE CARE; REOPERATION; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME FACTORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 0035465386     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1047951101000701     Document Type: Article

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