Platelet distribution width and mean platelet volume in children with pulmonary arterial hypertension secondary to congenital heart disease with left-to-right shunt: New indices of severity?

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1013-1016

  Arslan, Derya ^a   Cimen, Derya ^a   Guvenc, Osman ^a   Kaya, Fatma ^a   Sert, Ahmet ^b   Oran, Bulent ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b KONYA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Platelet distribution width; Prognoses; Pulmonary arterial hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT RIGHT SHUNT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; THROMBOCYTE VOLUME;

BLOOD PLATELETS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84879505767     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0600-5     Document Type: Article

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