Percutaneous transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects: Initial single-centre experience and follow-up results. Initial experience with three-dimensional echocardiography

Acta Cardiologica

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 171-178

  De Ridder, Serge ^a,c   Suttorp, Maarten Jan ^a   Ernst, Sjef M P G ^a   Six, Jacob A ^a   Mannaerts, Herman F J ^b   Kamp, Otto ^b   Plokker, Thijs H W M ^a   Jaarsma, Wybren ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NONE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Device closure

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 19144368006     PISSN: 00015385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/AC.60.2.2005028     Document Type: Article

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