Implantation of stents as an alternative to reoperation in neonates and infants with acute complications after surgical creation of a systemic-to-pulmonary arterial shunt

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 177-184

  Kaestner, Michael ^a   Handke, Ronald P ^a   Photiadis, Joachim ^a   Sigler, Matthias ^b   Schneider, Martin B E ^a  

^a Deutsches Kinderherzzentrum   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheterization; Congenital heart disease; Cyanosis; Heart surgery

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN;

ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD CARE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INTERVENTION STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; SHUNT THROMBOSIS; STENT; SYSTEMIC PULMONARY SHUNT;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 42049083207     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951108001959     Document Type: Article

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