Transcatheter Coil Occlusion of Residual Shunt in a Patient with Recurrent Cryptogenic Stroke after PFO Percutaneous Closure

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 415-417

  Donti, Andrea ^a   Giardini, Alessandro ^a,b   Formigari, Roberto ^a   Bronzetti, Gabriele ^a   Prandstraller, Daniela ^a   Bonvicini, Marco ^a   Picchio, Fernando M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiac catheterization; Interatrial septum; Residual shunt; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; TICLOPIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMPLANT; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MALE; RECURRENT DISEASE; STROKE; TRANSCATHETER COIL OCCLUSION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 1542347774     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.10770     Document Type: Article

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