Aortic valve surgery in children

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 14, 2011, Pages 1182-1189

  D'Udekem, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; PROSTAGLANDIN E1;

ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE DISEASE; AORTA VALVE PROSTHESIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; AORTIC ROOT DILATATION; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DACRON IMPLANT; ENDOCARDIAL CUSHION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART VALVE BIOPROSTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; MARFAN SYNDROME; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; REIMPLANTATION; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY;

ADOLESCENT; AORTIC VALVE; BALLOON DILATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT SELECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79959332474     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2009.190520     Document Type: Review

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