Precordial abscess inducing chest pain 20 years after surgical repair of a pentalogy of Fallot

Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 555-558

  Aschwanden, Evelyne ^a   Bodenmann, Patrick ^a   Schlueter, Léo ^a   Fivat Arbane, Malika ^a   Hurni, Michel ^a   Qanadli, Salah Dine ^a   Jaussi, Andres ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAUSANNE   (Switzerland)

^b NONE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Complications of Fallot repair; Echocardiography in GUCH patients; Fallot repair; Precordial abscess

Indexed keywords

BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CASE REPORT; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CYST; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT PENTALOGY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; STERNOTOMY; THORAX PAIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ABSCESS; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CHEST PAIN; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 4043059162     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0742-2822.2004.03127.x     Document Type: Article

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