The project "Don Carlo Gnocchi Foundation - Cardio-Thoracic Department De Gasperis - Lombardy Region for the care of children from socio-economically deprived areas affected by cardiac disease;II progetto "Fondazione Don Carlo Gnocchi - Dipartimento Cardiochirurgico De Gasperis - Regione Lombardia" per la cura di bambini cardiopatici provenienti da paesi esteri a basso livello assistenziale

Giornale Italiano di Cardiologia

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 519-526

  Ferratini, Maurizio ^a   Marianeschi, Stefano ^b   Vitali, Ettore ^b   Iorio, Fiore ^b   Moraschi, Andrea ^a   Pezzano, Antonio ^a   Mauri, Luigi ^b   Lorini, Saverio ^c   Rambaldi, Roberto ^c   Tersalvi, Carlo Alberto ^d   Pesaresi, Marilena ^e   Pllumi, Arketa ^f   Santoro, Francesco ^b  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE DON CARLO GNOCCHI   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALE NIGUARDA CA GRANDA   (Italy)

^c FDG ONLUS   (Italy)

^d Direzione Generale Sanita   (Italy)

^e Ospedale Luisa Guidotti   (Zimbabwe)

^f Centro Sanitario Madonnina del Grappa   (Albania)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Impoverished country; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ALBANIA; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART REHABILITATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NON PROFIT ORGANIZATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; SOCIAL CLASS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; ZIMBABWE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 35748975443     PISSN: 18276806     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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