Heart transplantation after Fontan procedure in adults

ASAIO Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2007, Pages

  Coskun, Tolga S ^a   Coskun, Oguz K ^a   El Arousy, Mahmut ^a   Blanz, Ute ^a   Bockhorst, Kerstin ^a   Tenderich, Gero ^a   Bairaktaris, Andreas ^a   Kececioglu, Deniz ^b   Körfer, Reiner ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARDIOLOGY; DISEASES; HEMODYNAMICS; PATHOLOGY; RISK ANALYSIS;

CONGENITAL HEART DISEASES; CYANOSIS; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

TRANSPLANTATION (SURGICAL);

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CANNULATION; CASE REPORT; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

ADULT; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; CATHETERIZATION; EXTRACORPOREAL CIRCULATION; FEMORAL ARTERY; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID ATRESIA; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 36549017707     PISSN: 10582916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAT.0b013e3181575bc4     Document Type: Article

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