Side-to-side aorto-goretex central shunt warrants central shunt patency and pulmonary arteries growth

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1476-1482

  Barozzi, Luca ^a,b   Brizard, Christian P ^a,b   Galati, John C ^a,b   Konstantinov, Igor E ^a,b   Bohuta, Lyubomyr ^a,b   D'udekem, Yves ^a,b  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ADD ON THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTERY DIAMETER; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; DEVICE; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY ARTERY GROWTH; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPSIS; SHUNT PATENCY; SHUNTING; SIDE TO SIDE AORTO GORE TEX CENTRAL SHUNTING; STROKE; SUDDEN DEATH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ANASTOMOSIS, SURGICAL; AORTA, THORACIC; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAFT OCCLUSION, VASCULAR; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VICTORIA;

EID: 80053315053     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2011.05.105     Document Type: Article

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