A novel adhesion barrier facilitates reoperations in complex congenital cardiac surgery

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 359-363

  Walther, Thomas ^a,b   Rastan, Ardawan ^a   Dähnert, Ingo ^a   Falk, Volkmar ^a   Jacobs, Stefan ^a   Mohr, Friedrich W ^a   Kostelka, Martin ^a  

^a Heart Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE ADHESIVE;

AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MEMBRANE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; REOPERATION; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADHESIONS; AORTIC VALVE STENOSIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 12844272738     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2004.07.011     Document Type: Article

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