Amplatzer septal occluder closure of atrial septal defect: Evaluation of transthoracic echocardiography, cardiac CT, and transesophageal echocardiography

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 193, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1522-1529

  Ko, Sheung Fat ^a   Liang, Chi Di ^a   Yip, Hon Kan ^a   Huang, Chung Cheng ^a   Ng, Shu Hang ^a   Huang, Chien Fu ^a   Chen, Min Chi ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amplatzer septal occluder; Atrial septal defect; Cardiac CT; Transesophageal echocardiography; Transthoracic echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

BALLOON OCCLUSION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFANT; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 73449123771     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.09.2854     Document Type: Article

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