Successful surgical correction of congenital heart disease in adults: Seven years' experience

Hellenic Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 128-134

  Chatzis, Andrew C ^a   Giannopoulos, Nicolaos M ^a   Tsoutsinos, Alexandros I ^a   Chryssostomidis, Grigorios ^a   Panagiotou, Chryssa ^a   Zavaropoulos, Prodromos ^a   Kirvasilis, George ^a   Sarris, George E ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adults; Congenital heart disease; Surgical treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHROMOSOME ABERRATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; REOPERATION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND DEHISCENCE; ADOLESCENT; AGE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURVIVAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21244440213     PISSN: 10117970     EISSN: 10117970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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