Right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction with decellularized porcine xenografts in patients with congenital heart disease

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 341-347

  Konertz, Wolfgang ^a   Angeli, Emanuela ^b   Tarusinov, Gleb ^c   Christ, Torsten ^a   Kroll, Johannes ^c   Dohmen, Pascal M ^a   Krogmann, Otto ^c   Franzbach, Birgit ^a   Napoleone, Carlo Pace ^b   Gargiulo, Gaetano ^b  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Heart Center Duisburg   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CALCIFICATION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; GRAFT FAILURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT RECONSTRUCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFANCY; INFANT; LUNG ARTERY HYPOPLASIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE DYSFUNCTION; PROSTHETIC VALVE ENDOCARDITIS; PULMONARY ARTERY MALFORMATION; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SWINE; TISSUE ENGINEERING; VALVED CONDUIT; XENOGRAFT; ANIMAL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMALS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VALVE; REOPERATION; SWINE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRANSPLANTATION, HETEROLOGOUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79961233977     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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