Immediate Echocardiographic Surveillance After Transcatheter Closure of a Patent Ductus Arteriosus: A Feasible Method to Assess Residual Shunt

• Hlavní autoři: Chi-Di Liang (Autor), Sheung-Fat Ko (Autor), Chien-Fu Huang (Autor), Shao-Ju Chien (Autor), Ying-Jui Lin (Autor), I-Chun Lin (Autor), Mao-Meng Tiao (Autor)
• Médium: Kniha
• Vydáno: Elsevier, 2010-02-01T00:00:00Z.
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To evaluate the feasibility of echocardiography after transcatheter closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) with coils. Methods: Between April 1998 and December 2006, 131 patients had transcatheter coil occlusion of their PDA using Gianturco coils. We hypothesized that post-procedural hemolysis wo...