Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 330-338 , September 2010

Pre-procedural planning for percutaneous atrial septal defect closure: Transesophageal echocardiography compared with cardiac computed tomographic angiography

Received 27 February 2010 ,Accepted 9 August 2010.

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 Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflicts of interest.

 This work was partially supported by a grant from Philips Health Care and Drs Quaife and Carroll received research support from Philips Health Care.

PII: S1934-5925(10)00465-X

doi: 10.1016/j.jcct.2010.08.002

Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography
Volume 4, Issue 5 , Pages 330-338 , September 2010

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