Challenges facing the child, adolescent, and young adult after the arterial switch operation

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 15, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages 111-121

  Mussatto, Kathleen ^a,b   Wernovsky, Gil ^a,b  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA STENOSIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE SEVERITY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; INFANT; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROGNOSIS; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COGNITION DISORDERS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 21844480106     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951105001137     Document Type: Article

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