Clinical Outcome of 193 Extracardiac Fontan Patients. The First 15 Years

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 2065-2073

  Giannico, Salvatore ^a   Hammad, Fatma ^b   Amodeo, Antonio ^a   Michielon, Guido ^a   Drago, Fabrizio ^a   Turchetta, Attilio ^b   Di Donato, Roberto ^a   Sanders, Stephen P ^a  

^a Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery ^*  (Italy)

^b BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURSE EVALUATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEATH; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LONG TERM CARE; LUNG ATRESIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PRIMARY PREVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; SAMPLE SIZE; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; PULMONARY ARTERY; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 33646259950     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2005.12.065     Document Type: Article

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