Complications of transcatheter closure of atrial septal defects

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1512-1514

  Spence, M S ^a   Qureshi, Shakeel A ^a  

^a GUY'S AND ST THOMAS' NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CARDIOVERSION; DEATH; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; EMBOLISM; EROSION; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFECTION; PERFORATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUBE; WOUND INFECTION;

CATHETER ABLATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 28144443294     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.057562     Document Type: Editorial

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