Preliminary clinical experience with a bifurcated Y-graft Fontan procedure - A feasibility study

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 383-389

  Kanter, Kirk R ^a   Haggerty, Christopher M ^b   Restrepo, Maria ^b   De Zelicourt, Diane A ^b   Rossignac, Jarek ^c   Parks, W James ^d   Yoganathan, Ajit P ^b  

^a Division of Pediatric Cardiology   (United States)

^b Emory University   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; POLITEF;

ADULT; ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; ARTERY GRAFT; ARTICLE; BIFURCATED Y GRAFT; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN GRAFT;

ADOLESCENT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYDRODYNAMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; REOPERATION; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84863987650     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2012.05.015     Document Type: Article

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