Right Ventricle to Pulmonary Artery Conduit Augmentation Compared With Replacement in Young Children

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 574-580

  Zachariah, Justin P V ^a   Pigula, Frank A ^b   Mayer Jr , John E ^b   McElhinney, Doff B ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AORTA GRAFT; AORTOPULMONARY SEPTAL DEFECT; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; BODY SURFACE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DACRON VASCULAR PROSTHESIS; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT VENTRICLE TO PULMONARY ARTERY CONDUIT; SCHOOL CHILD; STENT; SUBACUTE ENDOCARDITIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; SYSTOLE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT; TRUNCUS ARTERIOSUS; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 67650731586     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.103     Document Type: Article

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