Surgical outcome of Fontan conversion and arrhythmia surgery: Need a pacemaker?

Asian Cardiovascular and Thoracic Annals

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 682-686

  Terada, Takafumi ^a   Sakurai, Hajime ^a   Nonaka, Toshimichi ^a   Sakurai, Takahisa ^a   Sugiura, Junya ^a   Taneichi, Tetsuyoshi ^a   Ohtsuka, Ryohei ^a  

^a CHUKYO HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

artificial; Atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; congenital; fontan procedure; heart defects; pacemaker; supraventricular; tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA SURGERY; ARTICLE; BILATERAL ATRIAL MAZE PROCEDURE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART FAILURE; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMPLANTED HEART PACEMAKER; ISTHMUS BLOCK PROCEDURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; OPERATION DURATION; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS BRADYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; HEART PACING; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HUMANS; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84903782479     PISSN: 02184923     EISSN: 18165370     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0218492313504939     Document Type: Article

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