Technical feasibility and intermediate outcomes of using a handcrafted, area-preserving, bifurcated Y-graft modification of the Fontan procedure

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 149, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 239-245.e1

  Martin, Mary Hunt ^a   Feinstein, Jeffrey A ^b,e   Chan, Frandics P ^b   Marsden, Alison L ^c   Yang, Weiguang ^b   Reddy, V Mohan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

AORTA THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; BIFURCATED Y GRAFT FONTAN PROCEDURE; BRONCHITIS; CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EXTRACORPOREAL OXYGENATION; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GRAFT OCCLUSION; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; PILOT STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL PATIENT; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PILOT PROJECTS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 84922407076     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2014.08.058     Document Type: Article

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