Experience with use of multiplane transesophageal echocardiography to guide closure of atrial septal defects using the Amplatzer device

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 430-436

  Figueroa, M I ^a   Balaguru, D ^a   McClure, C ^a   Kline, C H ^a   Radtke, W A K ^a   Shirali, G S ^a  

^a Charleston   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Device closure; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; AMPLATZER DEVICE; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECHANICAL PROBE; MINIMAL RESIDUAL DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVICE REMOVAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; SOUTH CAROLINA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036653746     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-002-1510-8     Document Type: Article

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