Polytetrafluoroethylene Bicuspid Pulmonary Valve Implantation: Experience With 126 Patients

World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 20-27

  Quintessenza, James Anthony ^a   Jacobs, Jeffrey Phillip ^a   Chai, Paul Jubeong ^a   Morell, Victor O ^b   Lindberg, Harald ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

cardiac surgery; congenital heart disease; database; outcomes; pulmonary insufficiency; pulmonary stenosis; results of treatment; tetralogy of Fallot

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990373683     PISSN: 21501351     EISSN: 21500136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/2150135110361509     Document Type: Article

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