Fontan hemodynamics: Importance of pulmonary artery diameter

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 137, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 560-564

  Dasi, Lakshmi P ^a   KrishnankuttyRema, Resmi ^a   Kitajima, Hiroumi D ^a   Pekkan, Kerem ^a   Sundareswaran, Kartik S ^d   Fogel, Mark ^b   Sharma, Shiva ^c   Whitehead, Kevin ^b   Kanter, Kirk ^d,e   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^c Pediatric Cardiology Services   (United States)

^d CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA   (United States)

^e EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GEOMETRY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INDEX; HEART OUTPUT; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 60949083952     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2008.04.036     Document Type: Article

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