The Amplatzer® Septal Occluder, a transcatheter device for atrial septal defect closure

Expert Review of Medical Devices

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 25-31

  Fu, Yun Ching ^a   Hijazi, Ziyad M ^b  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplatzer ; Atrial septal defect; Cardiac catheterization; Complications; Devices; Septal Occluder

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; EMBOLISM; FOREIGN BODY; HEADACHE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART INJURY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WOUND CLOSURE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART SEPTUM DEFECT; IMPLANTATION; INFANT; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; INFANT; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 38049162405     PISSN: 17434440     EISSN: 17452422     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/17434440.5.1.25     Document Type: Article

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