Catheter-based atrial shunt occlusion, when the going gets even tougher: Editorial comment to use of a straight, side-hole (SSH), delivery sheath for improved delivery of amplatzer ASD occluder

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-22

  Meier, Bernhard ^a  

^a BERN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVICE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; NOTE; PATIENT SAFETY; POSITION; TECHNIQUE;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33845980209     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.20988     Document Type: Note

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