Transcatheter closure of a coronary fistula with an Amplatzer® Vascular Plug: Should a retrograde approach be standard?

Texas Heart Institute Journal

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-61

  Kassaian, Seyed Ebrahim ^a   Alidoosti, Mohammad ^a   Sadeghian, Hakimeh ^a   Dehkordi, Maria Raissi ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Arteriovenous malformations diagnosis surgery; Blood vessel prosthesis implantation instrumentation; Constriction, pathologic physiopathology; Coronary vessel anomalies physiopathology; Embolization, therapeutic methods

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY FISTULA; DEVICE THERAPY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SAFETY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY DISEASE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 42549087337     PISSN: 07302347     EISSN: 15266702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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