Reoperation in a Jehovah's Witness: 22 years after aortic allograft reconstruction of the right ventricular outflow tract

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 146-148

  Dohmen, P M ^a   Liu, J ^a   Lembcke, A ^a   Konertz, W ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Blood loss; Blood transfusion; Blood vessel prosthesis; Calcinosis; Heart defects, congenital surgery; Pulmonary artery surgery; Pulmonary valve transplantation; Reoperation; Tetralogy of Fallot; Ventricular function, right

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; RECOMBINANT ERYTHROPOIETIN;

ADULT; ALLOGRAFT; ANEMIA; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSTHESIS; RELIGION; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ADULT; ANEMIA, HEMOLYTIC; AORTA; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CALCINOSIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; HEART DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; REOPERATION; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037639892     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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