Adults or big kids: What is the ideal clinical environment for management of grown-up patients with congenital heart disease?

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 573-579

  Karamlou, Tara ^a   Diggs, Brian S ^a   Ungerleider, Ross M ^b   Welke, Karl F ^c  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Multicare Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; MORTALITY; PATIENT CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRIVATE HOSPITAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK; ANESTHESIST; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; NOTE; OPERATING ROOM;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PEDIATRICS; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77955703066     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2010.02.078     Document Type: Article

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