Two cases of late embolization of Amplatzer septal occluder devices to the pulmonary artery following closure of secundum atrial septal defects

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 588-592

  Mashman, Walter E ^a,b   King, Spencer B ^b   Jacobs, W Carl ^a,b   Ballard, William L ^b,c  

^a Cardiac Disease Specialists PC   (United States)

^b PIEDMONT HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c Cardiology of Georgia   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Congenital heart disease; Transcatheter closure

Indexed keywords

NITINOL;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA PERFORATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; DEVICE; ENDOCARDITIS; FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORBIDITY; PULMONARY ARTERY; TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23044483571     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20429     Document Type: Article

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