Surgical strategy for aortic coarctation repair resulting in physiologic arm and leg blood pressures

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 583-591

  Swartz, Michael F ^a,b   Atallah Yunes, Nader ^a,b,c   Meagher, Cecilia ^a,b   Schiralli, Matthew P ^a,b   Cholette, Jill ^a,b   Orie, Joseph ^a,d   Gensini, Francisco ^a,b,c   Kavey, Rae Ellen W ^a,b   Alfieris, George M ^a,b,c  

^a Pediatric Cardiac Consortium of Upstate New York   (United States)

^b STRONG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Aortic operation; Coarctation; Pediatrics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA FLOW; AORTIC ARCH SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BRACHIOCEPHALIC TRUNK; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AORTA; AORTIC COARCTATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; NEW YORK; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNOTOMY; THORACOTOMY; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 82355194810     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2011.00589.x     Document Type: Article

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