Echocardiographic characteristics of secundum-type atrial septal defects in adult patients: Implications for percutaneous closure using amplatzer septal occluders

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1167-1172

  Prokšelj, Katja ^a   Koželj, Mirta ^a   Zadnik, Vesna ^a   Podnar, Tomaž ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 6344233578     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2004.06.033     Document Type: Article

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