Successful cardiac transplant after Berlin Heart bridge in a single ventricle heart: Use of aortopulmonary shunt as a supplementary source of pulmonary blood flow

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Pearce, F Bennett ^a   Kirklin, James K ^a   Holman, William L ^a   Barrett, Cindy S ^a   Romp, Robb L ^a   Lau, Yung R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTOPULMONARY SHUNT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ASSIST DEVICE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMAN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MALE; MITRAL VALVE ATRESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AORTA, THORACIC; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLES; HEART-ASSIST DEVICES; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY CIRCULATION;

EID: 58249087765     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.02.044     Document Type: Article

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