Interim mortality in infants with systemic-to-pulmonary artery shunts

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 152-156

  Fenton, Kathleen N ^a   Siewers, Ralph D ^b   Rebovich, Beverley ^b   Pigula, Frank A ^b  

^a Children's Hospital   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

AORTA; AUTOPSY; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH STATUS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFANT; IRRITABILITY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTPATIENT; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK; SHUNTING; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL PATIENT; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

EID: 0038337921     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00168-1     Document Type: Article

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