Management of a Stenotic Right Ventricle-Pulmonary Artery Shunt Early After the Norwood Procedure

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 830-838

  Hsia, Tain Yen ^a   Migliavacca, Francesco ^b   Pennati, Giancarlo ^b   Balossino, Rossella ^b   Dubini, Gabriele ^b   de Leval, Marc R ^c   Bradley, Scott M ^a   Bove, Edward L ^d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c International Congenital Cardiac Centre   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; BLOOD REGURGITATION; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIASTOLE; HEART OUTPUT; HEART VENTRICLE; HYDRAULIC CONDUCTIVITY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG CIRCULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; OXYGEN SATURATION; OXYGEN SUPPLY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; RIGHT VENTRICLE TO PULMONARY ARTERY CONDUIT; STROKE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; VENOUS OXYGEN TENSION;

BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; CARDIAC OUTPUT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; HEART VENTRICLES; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LUNG; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); OXYGEN; PALLIATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 68949137446     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2009.05.051     Document Type: Article

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