Complete surgical repair of tetralogy of fallot in adults, is it ever too late?

Journal of Cardiac Surgery

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 23-26

  Ghavidel, Alireza Alizadeh ^a   Javadpour, Hossein ^a   Tabatabaei, Mohammad Bagher ^a   Adambeig, Ahmad ^a   Raeisi, Kamal ^a   Noohi, Fereidoon ^a  

^a IRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INOTROPIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG INSUFFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PULMONARY VALVE REPLACEMENT; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; IRAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39649100879     PISSN: 08860440     EISSN: 15408191     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8191.2007.00502.x     Document Type: Article

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