Beyond Fontan conversion: Surgical therapy of arrhythmias including patients with associated complex congenital heart disease

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 542-554

  Deal, Barbara J ^b   Mavroudis, Constantine ^a   Backer, Carl L ^b   Huddleston, Charles B ^b  

^a CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART BLOCK; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MUSTARD SURGERY; NEWBORN; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR FIBRILLATION;

EID: 0042659302     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00469-7     Document Type: Article

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