Current outcomes of ross operation for pediatric and adolescent patients

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 27-36

  Raja, Shahzad G ^a   Pollock, James C ^a  

^a ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ANTICOAGULATION; AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDITIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOCARDITIS; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; EXERCISE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT SAFETY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846937108     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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