Patterns of Congenital Heart Disease in Unoperated Adults: A 20-Year Experience in a Developing Country

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 236-240

  Hannoush, Hwaida ^a   Tamim, Hala ^a   Younes, Hussein ^a   Arnaout, Samir ^a   Gharzeddine, Walid ^a   Dakik, Habib ^a   Obeid, Mounir ^a   Bitar, Fadi F ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

Adults; Congenital heart disease; Developing country; Grown up congenital heart

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; INOTROPIC AGENT; PHENYTOIN;

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AORTA ANOMALY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CAUSE OF DEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ENDOCARDITIS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LEBANON; LUNG EDEMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT PLANNING;

EID: 1842583788     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.4960270413     Document Type: Article

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