A full house: Complications from an uncorrected patent ductus arteriosus

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 310-313

  Khush, Kiran K ^a   Randhawa, Ritu ^b   Israel, Elliot ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DOPAMINE; HEPARIN; PHENYLEPHRINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTERY DISSECTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DEATH; HEART ARREST; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG INFARCTION; MALE; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PNEUMONIA; PULMONARY ARTERY ANEURYSM; REVIEW;

EID: 27944451865     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-005-0054-y     Document Type: Review

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