The grown-up congenital cardiac patient

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 78-82

  Borghi, Adele ^a,b   Ciuffreda, Matteo ^a   Quattrociocchi, Maria ^a   Preda, Laura ^a  

^a OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Follow up; Grown up patients with congenital heart disease (GUCH); Heart surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PROSTACYCLIN; SILDENAFIL;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; CYANOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECONOMIC ASPECT; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART PACING; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG CIRCULATION; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY; POLYCYTHEMIA; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC CARE FACILITIES; CARDIAC OUTPUT, LOW; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; EISENMENGER COMPLEX; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; ITALY; LONG-TERM CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33846646057     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000247441.79644.4b     Document Type: Review

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