Feasibility, safety, and efficacy of real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography for guiding device closure of interatrial communications: Initial clinical experience and impact on radiation exposure

European Journal of Echocardiography

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-8

  Balzer, Jan ^a   Van Hall, Silke ^b   Rassaf, Tienush ^a   Böring, Yang Chul ^a   Franke, Andreas ^b   Lang, Roberto M ^c   Kelm, Malte ^a   Kühl, Harald P ^b  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Interatrial communications; RT 3D TEE; Transcatheter device closure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; RADIATION DOSAGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 74949121111     PISSN: 15252167     EISSN: 15322114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ejechocard/jep116     Document Type: Article

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