A novel catheter for simultaneous angiography of ipsilateral pulmonary veins

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 62-63

  Yamada, Takumi ^a   Okada, Taro ^b   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^b  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^b Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiography; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST MEDIUM; POLYAMIDE; POLYURETHAN;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DILUTION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; INJECTION; INSTRUMENT STERILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETERIZATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW;

EID: 33846487834     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul132     Document Type: Article

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