Effect of Shunt Type on Echocardiographic Indices After Initial Palliations for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome: Blalock-Taussig Shunt Versus Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery Conduit

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1364-1373

  Frommelt, Peter C ^a   Sheridan, David C ^a   Mussatto, Kathy A ^b   Hoffman, George M ^a   Ghanayem, Nancy S ^a   Frommelt, Michele A ^a   Tweddell, James S ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE PERFORMANCE; HEART SIZE; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHUNTING; SYSTOLE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36549019972     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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