Aspirin: A treatment for the headache of shunt-dependent pulmonary blood flow and parallel circulation?

Circulation

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 236-237

  Tweddell, James S ^a  

^a Children's Hospital of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Aspirin; Editorials; Heart defects, congenital; Platelets; Shunts; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTERY DISEASE; BLEEDING; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CIRCULATION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CYANOSIS; DEHYDRATION; EDITORIAL; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART PRELOAD; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MYOCARDIAL DISEASE; POLITEF IMPLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULSE OXIMETER; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ASPIRIN; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION;

EID: 34547596243     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.107.707992     Document Type: Editorial

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