Postprocedural outcomes of rural children undergoing correction of congenital heart lesions in Yunnan Province, China

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 811-814

  Ho, Tiffany C ^a   Ouyang, Hui ^b   Lu, Yun ^c   Young, Alfred Hu ^d   Chintala, Kavitha ^e   Detrano, Robert C ^f  

^a China California Heart Watch   (United States)

^b CHENGDU MILITARY GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c Department of Cardiology   (China)

^d Heart Institute for Children   (United States)

^e WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital cardiac surgery; Follow up; Rural China

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHINA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY CARE UNIT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RURAL AREA;

ADOLESCENT; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; MALE; MEDICALLY UNDERSERVED AREA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051471998     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-011-9991-y     Document Type: Article

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