Development of Bilateral Diffuse Pulmonary Arteriovenous Fistula After Fontan Procedure: Is There Nonhepatic Factor?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 677-680

  Kwon, Bo Sang ^a   Bae, Eun Jung ^a   Kim, Gi Beom ^a   Noh, Chung Il ^a   Choi, Jung Yun ^a   Yun, Yong Soo ^a  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; BILIRUBIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HEMOGLOBIN; OXYGEN;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA ANOMALY; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN VENTRICLE PERITONEUM SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTRAST ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CYANOSIS; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GLENN SHUNT; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE ENDDIASTOLIC PRESSURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYDROCEPHALUS; HYPOPLASIA; HYPOXIA; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CIRCULATION; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MENINGITIS; MITRAL VALVE ATRESIA; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULSE OXIMETRY; SCHOOL CHILD; SHORT STATURE; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADOLESCENT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; CHILD; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRCULATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 67650718518     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.12.065     Document Type: Article

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