Lessons learned from a series of patients with missed aortopulmonary windows

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 480-484

  Kiran, Viralam S ^a   Singh, Mukesh Kumar ^a   Shah, Sejal ^a   John, Colin ^a   Maheshwari, Sunita ^a  

^a NARAYANA INSTITUTE OF CARDIAC SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Congenital heart disease; Diagnostic error; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; AORTOPULMONARY SEPTAL DEFECT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DILATATION; HEART INDEX; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PEDIATRICS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE;

ADOLESCENT; AORTOPULMONARY SEPTAL DEFECT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 53349101698     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: 14671107     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1047951108002588     Document Type: Article

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