Heart transplantation in biventricular congenital heart disease: Indications, techniques, and outcomes

Current Cardiology Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 92-101

  Mora, Bassem N ^a   Huddleston, Charles B ^a  

^a ST LOUIS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biventricular; Cardiac transplantation; Congenital heart disease; Failing ventricle; Heart failure; Heart transplant; Orthotopic heart transplantation; Pediatric cardiac surgery; Perioperative and long term outcomes

Indexed keywords

AMINOCAPROIC ACID; TRANEXAMIC ACID;

ACUTE GRAFT REJECTION; ALLOGRAFT; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ASSISTED CIRCULATION; CARDIAC ALLOGRAFT VASCULOPATHY; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHRONIC GRAFT REJECTION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEXTROCARDIA; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INFECTION; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; LYMPHOPROLIFERATIVE DISEASE; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORGAN DONOR; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OVERALL SURVIVAL; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIZATION; SITUS INVERSUS; STERNOTOMY; SUDDEN DEATH; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION;

GRAFT REJECTION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HEART FAILURE; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PALLIATIVE CARE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; TISSUE AND ORGAN HARVESTING; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS; VASCULAR RESISTANCE;

EID: 80054109185     PISSN: 1573403X     EISSN: 18756557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340311797484196     Document Type: Article

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