Sudden heart failure due to a ruptured posterior Valsalva sinus aneurysm into the right atrium: Feasibility of catheter closure using the amplatzer duct occluder

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 603-607

  Onorato, Eustaquio ^a   Casilli, Francesco ^a   Mbala Mukendi, Marcel ^a   Perlasca, Elen ^a   Santoro, Franco ^a   Bortone, Franco ^a   Arena, Vincenzo ^a  

^a Humanitas Gavazzeni Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aneurysm; Congenital heart disease; Heart failure; Interventional procedures; Intravascular ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AORTA ANEURYSM; AORTA RUPTURE; AORTA SINUS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED;

AORTIC ANEURYSM; AORTIC RUPTURE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE, CONGESTIVE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SINUS OF VALSALVA;

EID: 33645576159     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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