Transseptal puncture guided by intracardiac echocardiography during percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy in patients with distorted anatomy of the fossa ovalis

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 463-467

  Cafri, C ^a   De La Guardia, B ^a   Barasch, E ^a   Brink, J ^a   Smalling, R W ^a,b  

^a MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracardiac ultrasound; Mitral valvuloplasty

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MITRAL VALVE COMMISSUROTOMY; PUNCTURE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PUNCTURES;

EID: 0033852067     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/1522-726X(200008)50:4<463::AID-CCD21>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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