Midterm Results of Size-Reduced Cryopreserved Homografts for Right Ventricular Outflow Tract Reconstruction

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 89, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1821-1826

  Yang, Ji Hyuk ^a   Jun, Tae Gook ^a   Sung, Kiick ^a   Kim, Wook Sung ^a   Lee, Young Tak ^a   Park, Pyo Won ^a  

^a Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTERIAL TRUNK; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOPRESERVATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXPLANT; FEMALE; GRAFT DYSFUNCTION; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART GRAFT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL TIME; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

AORTIC VALVE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYOPRESERVATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PULMONARY VALVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR OUTFLOW OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 77952412098     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.03.009     Document Type: Article

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