The Amplatzer Vascular Plug: A review of the device and its clinical applications

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 725-740

  Wang, Weiping ^a   Li, Hongcui ^b   Tam, Matthew D ^c   Zhou, Dayong ^a   Wang, David X ^d   Spain, James ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Department of Gastroenterology   (China)

^c BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d Orange High School   (United States)

Author keywords

Amplatzer Vascular Plug; Coils; Embolization; Occlusion

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BRONCHOPULMONARY FISTULA; CAROTID ARTERY; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLOW RATE; GASTRODUODENAL ARTERY; GUIDE WIRE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; LUNG DISEASE; MATERIALS TESTING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PATENT DUCTUS VENOSUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; RECANALIZATION; RENAL ARTERY; REVIEW; SEPTAL OCCLUDER; SPLEEN ARTERY; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; VEIN EMBOLISM; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS DESIGN; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; TIME FACTORS; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84866620046     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-012-0387-z     Document Type: Review

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