Fitting a round plug in a crescent-shaped hole: The percutaneous approach to paravalvular leaks

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 842-843

  Turi, Zoltan G ^a,b  

^a Division of Female Pelvic Medicine and Reconstructive Surgery   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLIP; ENDOCARDITIS; FLUOROSCOPY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; NOTE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PARAVALVULAR LEAKAGE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPNEA; ENDOCARDITIS; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION;

EID: 65549146458     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: 1522726X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ccd.22070     Document Type: Note

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