Conversion to Total Cavopulmonary Connection Improves Functional Status even in Older Patients with Failing Fontan Circulation

Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon

Volumn 63, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 380-387

  Ono, Masamichi ^a   Cleuziou, Julie ^a   Kasnar Samprec, Jelena ^a   Burri, Melchior ^a   Hepp, Vanessa ^a   Vogt, Manfred ^a   Lange, Rüdiger ^a   Schreiber, Christian ^a   Hörer, Jürgen ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

failing Fontan circulation; Fontan conversion; MAZE procedure; tachyarrhythmia; total cavopulmonary connection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BIATRIAL MAZE PROCEDURE; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CIRCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEATH; EXTUBATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; NEW YORK HEART ASSOCIATION CLASS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVOR; TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; GERMANY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART PACING; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GERMANY; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, LEFT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84939258797     PISSN: 01716425     EISSN: 14391902     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0035-1548735     Document Type: Article

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