A new clip device for the construction of vascular interrupted anastomoses in congenital cardiac surgery

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 358-361

  Berdat, Pascal A ^a   Pfammatter, Jean Pierre ^a   Pavlovic, Mladen ^a   Carrel, Thierry ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AORTA CLAMPING; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY STENT; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG ATRESIA; MATERIALS HANDLING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTIC COARCTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SUTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 0142217154     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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