The precarious state of the liver after a fontan operation: Summary of a multidisciplinary symposium

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1001-1012

  Rychik, Jack ^a,b   Veldtman, Gruschen ^c   Rand, Elizabeth ^a,b   Russo, Pierre ^a,b   Rome, Jonathan J ^a,b   Krok, Karen ^d,e   Goldberg, David J ^a,b   Cahill, Anne Marie ^a,e   Wells, Rebecca G ^d,e  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Decreased cardiac output; Elevated venous pressure; Fontan operation; Hepatic fibrosis; Liver

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALPHA SMOOTH MUSCLE ACTIN; BILIRUBIN; INDOCYANINE GREEN; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA;

ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANGIOGENESIS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL HYPOXIA; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ELASTOGRAPHY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GLENN SHUNT; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATITIS B; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER HISTOLOGY; LUNG BLOOD FLOW; MYOFIBROBLAST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHENOTYPE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; STELLATE CELL; STEM CELL;

CARDIAC OUTPUT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONGRESSES AS TOPIC; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS;

EID: 84867872955     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0315-7     Document Type: Review

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