Recent advances in the management of congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Current Opinion in Pediatrics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 379-385

  Rollins, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

congenital diaphragmatic hernia; ECMO; fetal surgery; prenatal imaging

Indexed keywords

MILRINONE; PROSTACYCLIN; SILDENAFIL;

ASSISTED VENTILATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONGENITAL DIAPHRAGM HERNIA; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FETUS; FETUS SURGERY; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; LUNG HYPOPLASIA; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NEWBORN; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PATIENT REFERRAL; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

DELIVERY, OBSTETRIC; EXTRACORPOREAL MEMBRANE OXYGENATION; FEMALE; FETAL DISEASES; HERNIA, DIAPHRAGMATIC; HUMANS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84861098802     PISSN: 10408703     EISSN: 1531698X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MOP.0b013e328352c4f2     Document Type: Review

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