Octreotide therapy in two children with intractable postoperative chylothorax

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 146, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hung, Wen Pin ^a   Wang, Jieh Neng ^a   Chang, Hok Keong ^b   Wu, Jing Ming ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAINAN SIN LAU HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chylothorax; Congenital heart disease; Octreotide; Postoperative; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

OCTREOTIDE;

ARTICLE; BLALOCK TAUSSIG SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL FEATURE; CYANOTIC HEART DISEASE; DRUG EFFICACY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; GLENN SHUNT; HUMAN; NEWBORN; PLEURA EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHYLOTHORAX; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; OCTREOTIDE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SOMATOSTATIN;

EID: 78951485098     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2008.12.210     Document Type: Article

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