Outcome of transcatheter closure of muscular ventricular septal defects with the Amplatzer ventricular septal defect occluder

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 513-516

  Thanopoulos, Basil D ^a   Rigby, M L ^b  

^a AGHIA SOPHIA CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Greece)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITINOL;

ADOLESCENT; AMPLATZER VENTRICULAR SEPTAL DEFECT OCCLUDER; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; DEVICE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS; SAFETY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; HEART BLOCK; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; METHODOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART BLOCK; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 15844427295     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.035535     Document Type: Article

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