Embolization of atrial septal occluder device into the pulmonary artery: A rare complication and usefulness of live/Real time three-Dimensional transthoracic echocardiography

Echocardiography

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 739-741

  Dod, Harvinder S ^a   Reddy, Venkataramana K ^b   Bhardwaj, Ravindra ^a   Gudausky, Todd ^a   Warden, Bradford E ^a   Beto, Robert J ^a   Nanda, Navin C ^b,c   Jain, Abnash C ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal occlusion device; Complication of atrial septal occlusion device; Three dimensional echocardiography; Two dimensional echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ATRIAL SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY ARTERY;

EID: 67650763528     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2009.00967.x     Document Type: Article

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