Four decades of Fontan palliation

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 520-527

  De Leval, Marc R ^a   Deanfield, John E ^a  

^a Cardiothoracic Unit   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTITHROMBIN III; BUDESONIDE; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; ENDOTHELIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA STENOSIS; ATRIOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CHEST INFECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY HEMODYNAMICS; EXERCISE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INCIDENCE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; ORTHOTOPIC TRANSPLANTATION; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY SUBVALVULAR STENOSIS; REOPERATION; REVIEW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART BYPASS, RIGHT; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART FAILURE; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; LIVER DISEASES; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956060891     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2010.99     Document Type: Review

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