Rehabilitation of pulmonary artery in congenital unilateral absence of intrapericardial pulmonary artery
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Rehabilitation of pulmonary artery in congenital unilateral absence of intrapericardial pulmonary artery.
OBJECTIVE We evaluated the efficacy of the early rehabilitation of remnant pulmonary artery in unilateral absent intrapericardial pulmonary artery and the factors affecting pulmonary artery growth. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records and imaging modalities of 15 patients with unilateral absent intrapericardial pulmonary artery (7 left and 8 right; median age at diagnosis, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
سال: 2011
ISSN: 0022-5223
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.09.072