Single-Plane Balloon Sizing of Atrial Septal Defects with Intracardiac Echocardiography: An Advantageous Alternative to Fluoroscopy

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 737-740

  Bartel, Thomas ^a   Konorza, Thomas ^b   Barbieri, Verena ^a   Erbel, Raimund ^b   Pachinger, Otmar ^a   Müller, Silvana ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Balloon sizing; Intracardiac echocardiography; Structural heart disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 44149123416     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2007.10.020     Document Type: Article

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