Transcatheter intracardiac echocardiography-assisted closure of interatrial shunts: Complications and midterm follow-up

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 196-202

  Rigatelli, Gianluca ^a,c   Cardaioli, Paolo ^a   Giordan, Massimo ^a   Dell'Avvocata, Fabio ^a   Braggion, Gabriele ^a   Piergentili, Christian ^a   Roncon, Loris ^a   Faggian, Giuseppe ^b  

^a ROVIGO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^c EndoCardioVascular Therapy Research   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Catheter based closure; Echocardiography; Intravascular; Patent foramen ovale; Percutaneous

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DEVICE; DEVICE REMOVAL; DEVICE THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; OBSERVER VARIATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 58649090466     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2008.00763.x     Document Type: Article

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