Utility of Intracardiac Echocardiographic Imaging for Transseptal Catheterization

Practical Intracardiac Echocardiography in Electrophysiology

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 56-73

  Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial septal defect; Doppler imaging; Intracardiac echocardiography (ICE); Lipomatous hypertrophy; Transseptal catheterization

Indexed keywords

EID: 70849106845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470994979.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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