Bilateral pulmonary artery banding for extremely low birth weight infants with coarctation or interruption of the aorta weighing less than 1.0 kg

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1339-1340

  Kawahira, Yoichi ^a   Nishigaki, Kyoichi ^a   Maehata, Yoshito ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ACIDOSIS; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HYPOPLASIA; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY BANDING; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY;

ABNORMALITIES, MULTIPLE; AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC COARCTATION; AORTOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LIGATION; PALLIATIVE CARE; PULMONARY ARTERY; STERNOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950916264     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.08.034     Document Type: Article

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