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The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair

The window ductus represents a very rare anatomical anomaly. Only a few cases of successful surgical repair have been reported. We present a 12 year old boy in whom window ductus was diagnosed and successfully operated. The operation included closure of the large (2.5 cm×0.5 cm) connection between t...

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Autores principales: Agarwal, Vijay, Mustaev, Muslim
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234196
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.74047
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description The window ductus represents a very rare anatomical anomaly. Only a few cases of successful surgical repair have been reported. We present a 12 year old boy in whom window ductus was diagnosed and successfully operated. The operation included closure of the large (2.5 cm×0.5 cm) connection between the main pulmonary artery and the aortic arch using cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia with circulatory arrest.
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spelling pubmed-30179212011-01-13 The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair Agarwal, Vijay Mustaev, Muslim Ann Pediatr Cardiol Case Report The window ductus represents a very rare anatomical anomaly. Only a few cases of successful surgical repair have been reported. We present a 12 year old boy in whom window ductus was diagnosed and successfully operated. The operation included closure of the large (2.5 cm×0.5 cm) connection between the main pulmonary artery and the aortic arch using cardiopulmonary bypass and hypothermia with circulatory arrest. Medknow Publications 2010 /pmc/articles/PMC3017921/ /pubmed/21234196 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.74047 Text en © Annals of Pediatric Cardiology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair
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title_full The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair
title_fullStr The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair
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title_short The window ductus: Circulatory arrest as an option for surgical repair
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3017921/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21234196
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-2069.74047
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