Diagnostic catheterization and balloon sizing of atrial septal defects by echocardiographic guidance without fluoroscopy

Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 159-163

  Ewert, Peter ^a   Berger, Felix ^a   Daehnert, Ingo ^a   Krings, Gregor ^a   Dittrich, Sven ^a   Lange, Peter E ^a  

^a DEUTSCHES HERZZENTRUM BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Balloon sizing; Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography; Transcatheter closure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; OXIMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034006824     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2000.tb01117.x     Document Type: Article

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