Surgery for congenital heart disease in low-birth weight neonates: A comprehensive statewide Connecticut program to improve outcomes

Connecticut Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 327-332

  Kopf, Gary S ^a   Mello, Dennis M ^b,c  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Emergency Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA ARCH ANOMALY; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOLLOW UP; GESTATIONAL AGE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LUNG ATRESIA; LUNG DISEASE; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PHYSIOLOGY; PREMATURITY; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; RISK FACTOR; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SEPSIS; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WEIGHT GAIN;

CONNECTICUT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0038154071     PISSN: 00106178     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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