Use of intracardiac echocardiography to guide implantation of a left atrial appendage occlusion device (PLAATO)

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 567-571

  Ho, Ivan C K ^a   Neuzil, Petr ^b   Mraz, Tomas ^b   Beldova, Zuzana ^b   Gross, Dan ^b   Formanek, Pavel ^b   Taborsky, Milos ^b   Niederle, Petr ^b   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a   Reddy, Vivek Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NA HOMOLCE HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE OUTFLOW TRACT; HUMAN; IMAGING; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE OCCLUSION DEVICE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CORONARY VESSELS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RESEARCH DESIGN; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247400748     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.01.014     Document Type: Article

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