The adult with a Fontan operation

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 331-335

  Aboulhosn, Jamil ^b   Child, John S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CYANOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SCINTIANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PROTEIN-LOSING ENTEROPATHIES; PULMONARY ATRESIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34447517454     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02938382     Document Type: Review

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