Adult Congenital Heart Surgery: Adult or Pediatric Facility? Adult or Pediatric Surgeon?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 833-840

  Kogon, Brian E ^a   Plattner, Courtney ^a   Leong, Traci ^b   Kirshbom, Paul M ^a   Kanter, Kirk R ^a   McConnell, Mike ^c   Book, Wendy ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SIBLEY HEART CENTER CARDIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CARDIOMYOPATHY; COMORBIDITY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; DEFIBRILLATOR; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR VALVE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART TUMOR; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; VALVULOPLASTY; VASCULAR RING;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; PEDIATRICS; THORACIC SURGERY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 60449097694     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.027     Document Type: Article

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