Comparative changes of pulmonary artery pressure values and tricuspid valve regurgitation following transcatheter atrial septal defect closure in adults and the elderly

Congenital Heart Disease

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 17-20

  Yalonetsky, Sergey ^a   Lorber, Avraham ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Cardiac catheterization; Elderly; Pulmonary artery pressure; Tricuspid pregurgitation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLIP; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; BALLOON OCCLUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY WEDGE PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 59849097147     PISSN: 1747079X     EISSN: 17470803     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2008.00245.x     Document Type: Article

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