Current status of the Contegra conduit for pediatric right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 616-622

  Raja, Shahzad G ^a   Rasool, Faisal ^a   Yousufuddin, Shaik ^a   Danton, Mark D ^a   MacArthur, Kenneth J ^a   Pollock, James C S ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOGRAFT; ANASTOMOSIS; ANEURYSM; ANTIGENICITY; AUTOTRANSPLANTATION; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CARDIAC GRAFT REJECTION; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FATALITY; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOGENICITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MEDLINE; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT; XENOGRAFT;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HUMANS; INFANT; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 27744473828     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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