A European multicentric experience using the CardioSEAL® and Starflex double umbrella devices to close interatrial communications holes within the oval fossa

Cardiology in the Young

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 519-526

  Carminati, M ^a,b   Giusti, S ^a   Hausdorf, G ^a   Qureshi, S ^a   Tynan, M ^a   Witsenburg, M ^a   Hess, J ^a   Piechaud, J F ^a   Bonhoeffer, P ^a   Donti, A ^a   Ovaert, C ^a   Sievert, H ^a   Elzenga, N ^a   Talsma, M ^a   Van Oort, A ^a   Ernst, J ^a   Gewillig, M ^a   De Geeter, B ^a  

^a Cardiologia Pcdiatrica ^*

^b IRCCS POLICLINICO SAN DONATO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Interventional closure; Occluding devices

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034279390     PISSN: 10479511     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s1047951100008210     Document Type: Article

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