Pericardial approach for cardiac therapies: Old practice with new ideas

Korean Circulation Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 479-488

  Han, Seongwook ^b   Hwang, Chun ^a,b  

^a UTAH VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Administration routes; Cannulation; Drug; Pericardium

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BASIC FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; NONIONIC CONTRAST MEDIUM; STEROID;

ABDOMINAL VISCUS PERFORATION; ABLATION THERAPY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ASCITES; CANNULATION; CARDIAC PERFORATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DEFIBRILLATOR; DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; GENE TRANSFER; HEART AMYLOIDOSIS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEMATOTHORAX; HIATUS HERNIA; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDIAL DISEASE; PERICARDIAL FAT NECROSIS; PERICARDIAL VARICES; PERICARDIOTOMY; PERICARDITIS; PERICARDIUM; PERICARDIUM ABSENCE; PERICARDIUM CYST; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; STROKE; SURGICAL APPROACH; VEIN INJURY; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78649418948     PISSN: 17385520     EISSN: 17385555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4070/kcj.2010.40.10.479     Document Type: Review

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