Assessing ASDs prior to device closure using 3D echocardiography. Just pretty pictures or a useful clinical tool?

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 478-482

  Morgan, G J ^a,b   Casey, F ^a   Craig, B ^a   Sands, A ^a  

^a ROYAL BELFAST HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

^b BRISTOL ROYAL HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Atrial septum morphology; Catheterisation; Congenital heart disease; Interventional cardiology; Three dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; DEVICE; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEDATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BALLOON DILATATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 45849100439     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euje.2007.07.001     Document Type: Article

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