Phased-array intracardiac echocardiography for guiding transseptal catheter placement: Utility and learning curve

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4 I, 2002, Pages 402-407

  Johnson, Susan B ^a   Seward, James B ^a   Packer, Douglas L ^a,b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Intracardiac ultrasound; Transseptal catheterization; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DOG; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MONITORING; NEEDLE; NONHUMAN; PERFORATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; RELIABILITY; TECHNIQUE; ULTRASOUND;

EID: 0036228206     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00402.x     Document Type: Article

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