Improved management of systemic venous anomalies in a single ventricle: New rationale

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 138, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1154-1159

  Amodeo, Antonio ^a   Grigioni, Mauro ^b   Filippelli, Sergio ^a   Gagliardi, Maria Giulia ^a   Del Gaudio, Costantino ^c   Morbiducci, Umberto ^d   D'Avenio, Giuseppe ^b   Brancaccio, Gianluca ^a   Di Donato, Roberto M ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^d POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAVA VEIN; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HUMAN; INFANT; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; RISK REDUCTION; SIMULATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AZYGOS VEIN; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HEPATIC VEINS; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 72049104414     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.04.039     Document Type: Article

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