Criterions for selection of patients for, and results of, a new technique for construction of the modified Blalock-Taussig shunt

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 463-473

  Chowdhury, Ujjwal K ^a   Venugopal, Panangipalli ^a   Kothari Shyam S , S S ^a   Saxena, Anita ^a   Talwar, Sachin ^a   Subramaniam, Ganapathy ^a   Singh, Rajvir ^a   Pradeep, Kizakke K ^a   Sathia, Siddhartha ^a   Kumar, A Sampath ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease cyanotic congenital heart disease paediatric surgery systemic pulmonary arterial shunts great vessel anomalies

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AORTA ARCH; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG ANASTOMOSIS; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DESCENDING AORTA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; LUNG CIRCULATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POLITEF IMPLANT; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY ARTERY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBCLAVIAN ARTERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THORACIC AORTA; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ANGIOGRAPHY; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DECISION MAKING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT SELECTION; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 33750185331     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951106000631     Document Type: Article

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