Echocardiography-Guided Interventions

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 213-231

  Silvestry, Frank E ^a   Kerber, Richard E ^a   Brook, Michael M ^a   Carroll, John D ^a   Eberman, Karen M ^a   Goldstein, Steven A ^a   Herrmann, Howard C ^a   Homma, Shunichi ^a   Mehran, Roxana ^a   Packer, Douglas L ^a   Parisi, Alfred F ^a   Pulerwitz, Todd ^a   Seward, James Bernard ^a   Tsang, Teresa S M ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

3 dimensional echocardiography; Alcohol septal ablation; Atrial septal defect; Cardiac electrophysiology; Cardiac ultrasound; Congenital heart disease; Echocardiography; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Intracardiac echocardiography; Left atrial appendage occlusion; Myocardial biopsy; Parent foramen ovale; Percutaneous transvenous balloon valvuloplasty; Pericardiocentesis; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transseptal catheterization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL SEPTAL ABLATION; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE BIOPSY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; ONLINE MONITORING; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSLUMINAL VALVULOPLASTY; TRANSSEPTAL CATHETERIZATION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 61549089048     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2008.12.013     Document Type: Article

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