Direct Measurement of Porto-systemic Gradient in a Failing Fontan Circulation

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 175-178

  Velpula, Madhavi ^a   Sheron, Nick ^a   Guha, Neill ^b   Salmon, Tony ^a   Hacking, Nigel ^a   Veldtman, Gruschen R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SOUTHAMPTON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b NOTTINGHAM UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiac Cirrhosis; Fontan Circulation; Portal Hypertension; Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE DETERMINATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FATAL OUTCOME; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; REOPERATION; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 79953013838     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2010.00451.x     Document Type: Article

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