Left superior vena cava in pediatric cardiology associated with extra-cardiac anomalies

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 123, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 302-306

  Postema, Pieter G ^a   Rammeloo, Lukas A J ^a   van Litsenburg, Raphaele ^a   Rothuis, Ellen G M ^a   Hruda, Jaroslav ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Congenital, hereditary, and neonatal diseases and abnormalities; Echocardiography; Heart defects, congenital; Pediatrics; Veins

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CHILD; CHOANA ATRESIA; COLOBOMA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEART DISEASE; HUMAN; INFANT; KIDNEY DYSPLASIA; LIMB MALFORMATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PERSISTENT LEFT SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TRISOMY; VERTEBRA MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PROBABILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL RATE; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 37349011498     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.12.020     Document Type: Article

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