The challenges of cardiac surgery for African children

Cardiovascular Journal of Africa

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 165-167

  Mocumbi, Ana Oh ^a  

^a Instituto do Coracao Maputo   (Mozambique)

Author keywords

Africa; Cardiac surgery; Paediatric cardiology

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANNULOPLASTY; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; CHILD; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FORWARD HEART FAILURE; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEPROSY; MALARIA; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRICIAN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POOR GENERAL CONDITION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; ROSS PROCEDURE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TUBERCULOSIS;

AFRICA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CHILD; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENDOMYOCARDIAL FIBROSIS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; THORACIC SURGERY;

EID: 84860322473     PISSN: 19951892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5830/CVJA-2012-013     Document Type: Review

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