Repair of ALCAPA in a 4-kg patient followed by successful weaning and "off-pump" explantation of an apical venting pulsative LVAD

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 261-263

  Huebler, Michael ^a   Koster, Andreas ^a   Redlin, Matthias ^a   Boettcher, Wolfgang ^a   Stiller, Brigitte ^a   Nürnberg, Ian ^b   Kuppe, Herman ^a   Hetzer, Roland ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Zentralkrankenhaus Links der Weser ^*  (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; EXPLANT; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY; WEANING;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSEL ANOMALIES; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18744383048     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2005.200439.x     Document Type: Article

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