Transient Elastography May Identify Fontan Patients with Unfavorable Hemodynamics and Advanced Hepatic Fibrosis

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 438-447

  Wu, Fred M ^a   Opotowsky, Alexander R ^a   Raza, Roshan ^a   Harney, Sarah ^a   Ukomadu, Chinweike ^a   Landzberg, Michael J ^a   Valente, Anne M ^a   Breitbart, Roger E ^a   Singh, Michael N ^a   Gauvreau, Kimberlee ^a   Jonas, Maureen M ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital Heart Disease; Fontan; Transient Elastography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN SATURATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELASTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INDEX; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CONGESTION; LIVER FIBROSIS; LIVER STIFFNESS MEASUREMENT; LUNG VASCULAR RESISTANCE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; BIOPSY; COMPLICATION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; INFANT; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOPSY; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ELASTICITY IMAGING TECHNIQUES; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; INFANT; LINEAR MODELS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84927697450     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/chd.12159     Document Type: Article

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