Percutaneous closure of a post-myocardial infarction ventricular septal defect guided by real-time three-dimensional echocardiography

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 569-571

  Halpern, Dan G ^a   Perk, Gila ^a   Ruiz, Carlos ^b   Marino, Nino ^b   Kronzon, Itzhak ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LENOX HILL HEART AND VASCULAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Percutaneous VSD closure; Three dimensional echocardiography; Ventricular septal defect; Ventricular septal rupture

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; AGED; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, VENTRICULAR; HUMANS; MALE; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 67650391605     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep021     Document Type: Article

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