Minimally invasive paediatric cardiac surgery

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 24-34

  Bacha, Emile ^a   Kalfa, David ^a  

^a New York Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; AORTA COARCTATION; ARTERY LIGATION; BALLOON DILATATION; BIOMECHANICS; CAMERA; CANNULA; CANNULATION; CARDIAC SURGEON; CARDIOLOGIST; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CARDIOSCOPY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; CAUTERIZATION; CHILD; COMPUTER MODEL; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; ENDOSCOPE; EXTUBATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FLOW KINETICS; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYBRID SINGLE VENTRICLE PALLIATION SURGERY; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTENSIVIST; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; NEUROPROTECTION; NORWOOD PROCEDURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NURSE; OFF PUMP SURGERY; OPERATING ROOM; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PEDIATRIC CARDIOLOGY; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIST; PULMONARY ARTERY STENOSIS; PULMONARY VALVE; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; PULMONARY VALVE REPLACEMENT; RETRACTOR; REVIEW; ROBOTICALLY ASSISTED SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SKIN INCISION; STENT; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL TECHNOLOGY; SUTURING METHOD; TEAMWORK; THORACOTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR; VENTRICULAR SEPTAL OCCLUDER; VIDEO ASSISTED THORACOSCOPIC SURGERY; WARD; WOUND HEALING;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 84891151493     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2013.168     Document Type: Review

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