Shifting of puncture site in the fossa ovalis during radiofrequency catheter ablation: Intracardiac echocardiography-guided transseptal left heart catheterization

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 673-680

  Hanaoka, Takeshi ^a   Suyama, Kazuhiro ^b   Taguchi, Atsushi ^b   Shimizu, Wataru ^b   Kurita, Takashi ^b   Aihara, Naohiko ^b   Kamakura, Shiro ^b  

^a SHINSHU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Fossa ovalis; Intracardiac echocardiography; Transseptal catheterization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SAFETY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PUNCTURES; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL;

EID: 27244445484     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: 1348673X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.44.673     Document Type: Article

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