{"title":"Balloon atrial septostomy with echocardiographic guidance.","authors":"J F Hall","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At the Childrens Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC, two-dimensional echocardiography has been used to guide balloon atrial septostomy in 17 neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease and has proved helpful in minimizing the risks associated with this procedure.</p>","PeriodicalId":79863,"journal":{"name":"CVP","volume":"11 6","pages":"23-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1983-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CVP","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
At the Childrens Hospital National Medical Center, Washington, DC, two-dimensional echocardiography has been used to guide balloon atrial septostomy in 17 neonates with cyanotic congenital heart disease and has proved helpful in minimizing the risks associated with this procedure.