Transesophageal echocardiography and intracardiac echocardiography differently predict potential technical challenges or failures of interatrial shunts catheter-based closure

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 77-81

  Rigateli, Gianluca ^a   Cardaioli, Paolo ^a   Braggion, Gabriele ^a   Aggio, Silvio ^a   Giordan, Massimo ^a   Magro, Beatrice ^a   Nascimben, Alberto ^a   Favaro, Alberto ^a   Rincon, Loris ^a  

^a General Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN VALVE;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33846486910     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: 15408183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2007.00219.x     Document Type: Article

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