Implantation of left atrial appendage occlusion devices and complex appendage anatomy: The importance of transesophageal echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 159-161

  Jorgensen, Jesse ^a   Palmer, Spencer ^a   Kalogeropoulos, Andreas ^a   Arita, Takeshi ^a   Block, Peter ^a   Martin, Randy ^a   Lerakis, Stamatios ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Division of Cardiology   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial appendage; Atrial fibrillation; Heart catheterization; Medical devices; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT PLANNING;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS;

EID: 33846799177     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2007.00369.x     Document Type: Article

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