Intracardiac echocardiography for implantation of LAA occlusion devices: A further step toward the ICE era?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 572-574

  Themistoclakis, Sakis ^a   Rossillo, Antonio ^a   Bonso, Aldo ^a   Raviele, Antonio ^a  

^a Arrhythmologic Center   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYLENE DERIVATIVE; NITINOL;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EDITORIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART DEATH; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; LEFT ATRIAL APPENDAGE OCCLUSION DEVICE; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 34247541797     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.02.007     Document Type: Editorial

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