Outcome of patients undergoing open heart surgery at the Uganda heart institute, Mulago hospital complex

African Health Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 946-953

  Aliku, Twalib O ^a,b   Lubega, Sulaiman ^b   Lwabi, Peter ^b   Oketcho, Michael ^b   Omagino, John O ^b   Mwambu, Tom ^b  

^a GULU UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b MULAGO HOSPITAL   (Uganda)

Author keywords

Open heart surgery; Uganda heart institute

Indexed keywords

SILDENAFIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FUNDING; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SEPSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA; EVALUATION STUDY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UGANDA;

EID: 84921677203     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4314/ahs.v14i4.25     Document Type: Article

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