Congenital heart disease in the adult: A review with internet-accessible transesophageal echocardiographic images

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 102, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 694-723

  Russell, Isobel A ^a   Rouine Rapp, Kathryn ^a   Stratmann, Greg ^a   Miller Hance, Wanda C ^a  

^a Department of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care ^*

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTERNET; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33644590675     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000197871.30775.2a     Document Type: Review

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