Usefulness of routine head ultrasound scans before surgery for congenital heart disease

Pediatrics

Volumn 131, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Rios, Danielle R ^a   Welty, Stephen E ^a   Gunn, Julia K ^b   Beca, John ^c   Minard, Charles G ^d   Goldsworthy, Michelle ^a   Coleman, Lee ^b   Hunter, Jill V ^a   Andropoulos, Dean B ^a   Shekerdemian, Lara S ^a  

^a TEXAS CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^c Starship Children's Hospital   (United States)

^d BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain imaging; Congenital heart disease; Head ultrasound; MRI; Neonate

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN INJURY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENCEPHALOMALACIA; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE DISPLAY; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PRACTICE; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; ULTRASOUND; WHITE MATTER INJURY; BRAIN IMAGING; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEAD; HEAD ULTRASOUND; NEWBORN; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

BRAIN IMAGING; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; HEAD ULTRASOUND; MRI; NEONATE;

BRAIN INJURIES; ECHOENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEAD; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84878710072     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: 10984275     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.2012-3734     Document Type: Article

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