Improving Results of the Fontan Procedure in Patients With Heterotaxy Syndrome

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1245-1251

  Kim, Soo Jin ^a   Kim, Woong Han ^b   Lim, Hong Gook ^a   Lee, Chang Ha ^a   Lee, Jae Young ^a  

^a Sejong General Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEPATIC VEIN; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ARRHYTHMIA; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PROGNOSIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748911450     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.04.082     Document Type: Article

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