Learning process for transseptal puncture guided by intracardiac echocardiography;Resultados de la curva de aprendizaje de la punción transeptal guiada mediante ecografía intracardíaca

Revista Espanola de Cardiologia

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 359-362

  Villacastín, Julián ^a   Castellano, Nicasio P ^a   Moreno, Javier ^a   Álvarez, Lucía ^a   Morales, Ricardo ^a   Rodríguez, Aníbal ^a  

^a HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ablation; Echocardiography; Hemodynamics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LEARNING; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; NEEDLE; PERICARDITIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAFETY; CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; EDUCATION; MIDDLE AGED; PUNCTURE; STANDARD;

CARDIOLOGY; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUNCTURES;

EID: 2942670472     PISSN: 03008932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13059729     Document Type: Article

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