Absent Posteroinferior and Anterosuperior Atrial Septal Defect Rims: Factors Affecting Nonsurgical Closure of Large Secundum Defects Using the Amplatzer Occluder

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 62-69

  Mathewson, James W ^a,b,c   Bichell, David ^a,b,c   Rothman, Abraham ^a,b,c   Ing, Frank F ^a,b,c  

^a Children's Hospital San Diego ^*  (United States)

^b RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0346688802     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2003.09.018     Document Type: Article

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