Prevention of postoperative pericardial adhesions in children with hypoplastic left heart syndrome

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 270-272

  Salminen, Jukka T ^a   Mattila, Ilkka P ^a   Puntila, Juha T ^a   Sairanen, Heikki I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Congenital; Pericardial adhesions

Indexed keywords

MACROGOL; POLITEF;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; ENDOPROSTHESIS; FEASIBILITY STUDY; GLENN SHUNT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; HYDROGEL; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERICARDIUM ADHESION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TISSUE ADHESION;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYDROGELS; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFANT; MALE; PERICARDIUM; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79551583132     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: 15699285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2010.241448     Document Type: Article

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