Fontan Completion for Younger than 3 Years of Age: Outcome in Patients with Functional Single Ventricle

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1680-1684

  Bezuska, Laurynas ^a   Lebetkevicius, Virgilijus ^a   Lankutis, Kestutis ^a   Sudikiene, Rita ^a   Sirvydis, Vytautas Jonas ^a   Tarutis, Virgilijus ^a  

^a VILNIUS UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Cavopulmonary connection; Fontan conversion; GORE TEX conduit; Single ventricle

Indexed keywords

AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; CHEST TUBE; CHILD; CHYLOTHORAX; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOCAL EPILEPSY; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART FAILURE; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEMIDIAPHRAGM PARESIS; HEMIPARESIS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOPLASTIC LEFT HEART SYNDROME; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROTEIN LOSING GASTROENTEROPATHY; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRACHEA STENOSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HEART VENTRICLE; INFANT; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

POLITEF;

CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; INFANT; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORBIDITY; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE VOLUME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84947864917     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-015-1217-2     Document Type: Article

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