Neonatal Blalock-Taussig shunt: Technical aspects and postoperative management

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 7-10

  Swain, Sunil K ^a   Dharmapuram, Anil K ^a   Reddy, Pramod ^a   Ramdoss, Nagarajan ^a   Raghavan, Sreekanth S ^a   Kona, Samba M ^a  

^a APOLLO HOSPITALS   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ADRENALIN; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; HEPARIN; INOTROPIC AGENT; POLITEF; POLYPROPYLENE; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYANOSIS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; NEWBORN; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; SHOCK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SUTURING METHOD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

EID: 40949088632     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/021849230801600103     Document Type: Article

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