Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction With the Bovine Jugular Vein Graft: 5 Years' Experience With 133 Patients

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 599-605

  Sekarski, Nicole ^a   van Meir, Hélène ^b   Rijlaarsdam, Marry E B ^b   Schoof, Paul H ^b   Koolbergen, David R ^b   Hruda, Jaroslav ^c   von Segesser, Ludwig K ^a   Meijboom, Erik J ^a   Hazekamp, Mark G ^b  

^a LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CALCIFICATION; COW; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT OBSTRUCTION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMPLANT; IMPLANTATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JUGULAR VEINS; PULMONARY ATRESIA; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRUNCUS ARTERIOSUS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 34447578653     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.04.026     Document Type: Article

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