Fontan operation and the single ventricle

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 2-11

  Aboulhosn, Jamil A ^a,d   Shavelle, David M ^a   Castellon, Yelba ^a   Criley, John Michael ^a   Plunkett, Mark ^a   Pelikan, Peter ^b   Dinh, Howard ^c   Child, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARBOR UCLA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Pacific Heart Institute   (United States)

^d NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Fontan operation; Heart septal defects; Pulmonary valve atresia; Single ventricle

Indexed keywords

BENAZEPRIL; CARVEDILOL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY STENT; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LIFESTYLE; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; LUNG ATRESIA; MOBILIZATION; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33846409830     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2007.00065.x     Document Type: Article

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