Real-time three-dimensional echocardiography for left atrial appendage ligation

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 108, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1467-1469

  Matyal, Robina ^a   Karthik, Swaminathan ^a   Subramaniam, Balachundhar ^a   Panzica, Peter ^a   Sundar, Sugantha ^a   Hagberg, Robert ^a   Jervis, Karinne ^a   Mahmood, Feroze ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY LIGATION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; STAPLER; THORACOTOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; LIGATION; REOPERATION; SUTURING METHOD;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHRONIC DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIGATION; REOPERATION; SUTURE TECHNIQUES; THORACOTOMY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 65349083780     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/ane.0b013e31819e9e54     Document Type: Article

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