A modified technique of stent fenestration of the interatrial septum improves patients with pulmonary hypertension

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-179

  Troost, Els ^a   Delcroix, Marion ^a   Gewillig, Marc ^a   van Deyk, Kristien ^a   Budts, Werner ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Pulmonary hypertension; Septostomy; Stent fenestration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC THROMBOEMBOLIC PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE COURSE; ENDARTERECTOMY; FEMALE; FENESTRATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART VALVE SURGERY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL SEPTUM; BALLOON DILATATION; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; KAPLAN-MEIERS ESTIMATE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WALKING;

EID: 60649091330     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.21760     Document Type: Article

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