Septal defects: Surgeons do it better

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 46-49

  Napoleone, Carlo Pace ^a,b   Gargiulo, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Pediatric cardiac surgery; Ventricular septal defect

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; BRAIN EMBOLISM; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PACEMAKER; PATIENT SELECTION; PERICARDIOTOMY; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THROMBOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846566314     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000247435.67075.d0     Document Type: Review

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