Percutaneous Closure of the Left Atrial Appendage

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 553-556

  Ostermayer, Stefan ^a   Reschke, Madlen ^a   Billinger, Kai ^a   Trepels, Thomas ^a   Büschek, Franziska ^a   Bayard, Yves ^a   Sievert, Horst ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL; WARFARIN;

AGED; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PERCUTANEOUS LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE TRANSCATHETER OCCLUSION SYSTEM; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 0242573383     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8183.2003.01055.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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