The Scimitar Syndrome: An Italian Multicenter Study

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 440-444

  Vida, Vladimiro L ^a   Speggiorin, Simone ^a   Padalino, Massimo A ^a   Crupi, Giancarlo ^b   Marcelletti, Carlo ^c   Zannini, Lucio ^d   Frigiola, Alessandro ^e   Varrica, Alessandro ^e   Di Carlo, Duccio ^f   Di Donato, Roberto ^f   Murzi, Bruno ^g   Bernabei, Massimo ^g   Boccuzzo, Giovanna ^a   Stellin, Giovanni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b OSPEDALI RIUNITI   (Italy)

^c Ospedale Civico e Benfratelli   (Italy)

^d IRCS Gaslini   (Italy)

^e IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

^f BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g G PASQUINUCCI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BALLOON DILATATION; BLEEDING; CHILD; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CORONARY STENT; CYANOSIS; DEATH; DEXTROCARDIA; DIAPHRAGM PARALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; ITALY; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; LUNG VEIN DRAINAGE ANOMALY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REIMPLANTATION; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; SCIMITAR VEIN; SCIMITAR VEIN STENOSIS; STENT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THORAX DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; VEIN GRAFT; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; ITALY; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SCIMITAR SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650716310     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.099     Document Type: Article

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