Closure of a Blalock-Taussig shunt with an amplatzer device after the Fontan operation [1];Cierre de la fístula de Blalock-Taussig con dispositivo de Amplatzer tras la operación de Fontan

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 56, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 826-827

  Bartolomé, Fernando Benito ^a   Prada Martínez, Fredy ^a   Sánchez Fernández Bernal, Cristina ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERIOGRAPHY; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CASE REPORT; FISTULA; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; LETTER; LUNG ATRESIA; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL INSTRUMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; ANASTOMOSIS; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; CHILD; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 0141446325     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13050339     Document Type: Letter

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