Preventing complicated transseptal puncture with intracardiac echocardiography: Case report

Cardiovascular Ultrasound

Volumn 3, Issue , 2005, Pages

  Shalganov, Tchavdar Nikolov ^a   Paprika, Dora ^a   Borbás, Sarolta ^a   Temesvári, András ^a   Szili Török, Tamás ^a  

^a Gottsegen Gyorgy Hung Inst C   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

AGED; AORTA DISEASE; ARTERY DILATATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TRANSSEPTAL PUNCTURE;

AGED; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; WOUNDS, PENETRATING;

EID: 17844365561     PISSN: 14767120     EISSN: 14767120     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1476-7120-3-5     Document Type: Article

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