Optimal Conduit Size of the Extracardiac Fontan Operation Based on Energy Loss and Flow Stagnation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 565-573

  Itatani, Keiichi ^a   Miyaji, Kagami ^a   Tomoyasu, Takahiro ^a   Nakahata, Yayoi ^a   Ohara, Kuniyoshi ^a   Takamoto, Shinichi ^b   Ishii, Masahiro ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BODY SURFACE; BREATHING; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; EXERCISE; EXPIRATORY FLOW; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GLENN SHUNT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; REST; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; VEIN DIAMETER;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RHEOLOGY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 67650756389     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.04.109     Document Type: Article

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