Ischaemic intestinal disease in neonates with congenital heart defects: The timing of cardiac surgery does matter

Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition

Volumn 95, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Kalfa, David ^a   Charpentier, A ^a   Dragulescu, A ^a   Fouilloux, V ^a   Fraisse, A ^a   Kreitmann, B ^a   De Lagausie, P ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; HYPOXIA; INCIDENCE; INTESTINE ISCHEMIA; LETTER; MESENTERY BLOOD FLOW; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NEWBORN; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PERFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION;

HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTESTINES; ISCHEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74749094320     PISSN: 13592998     EISSN: 14682052     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/adc.2009.162719     Document Type: Letter

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