Right-to-left Shunt Through a Patent Foramen Ovale Left Open in the Management of Acute Right Heart Failure After Heart Transplantation

Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 135-137

  Ozdogan, Mehmet Emin ^a   Erer, Dilek ^a   Iriz, Erkan ^a   Oktar, Gursel Levent ^a   Kula, Serdar ^a   Buyukates, Mustafa ^b  

^a GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ZONGULDAK KARAELMAS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ILOPROST;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DECOMPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; ORGAN DONOR; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART FAILURE; HEART SEPTUM; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS;

EID: 37549017696     PISSN: 10532498     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healun.2007.09.024     Document Type: Article

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