Intracardiac echocardiography: An ideal guiding tool for device closure of interatrial communications

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 92-96

  Bartel, Thomas ^a   Konorza, Thomas ^a   Neudorf, Ulrich ^b   Ebralize, Tiko ^a   Eggebrecht, Holger ^a   Gutersohn, Achim ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Device closure; Interatrial communications; Intracardiac echo

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANESTHESIA INDUCTION; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; BALLOON; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; OPERATION DURATION; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; SAFETY; SEDATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TIME FACTORS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 14744291659     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2004.07.007     Document Type: Article

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