Closure of a superior vena cava baffle leak in a patient with D-transposition after mustard palliation: Importance of both angiography and echocardiography for confirmation of closure

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 30, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 1046-1047

  Farooqi, Kanwal ^a   Lopez, Leo ^a   Sutton, Nicole J ^a   Pass, Robert H ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; MALE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; STENTS; TRANSPOSITION OF GREAT VESSELS; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 75349093419     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-009-9517-z     Document Type: Note

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