Intracardiac echocardiography in the diagnosis and closure of patent foramen ovale

Affiliations

¹ Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Disease; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Disease, Ministry of Education; Beijing, China.

Kang-Ning Han et al. J Geriatr Cardiol. 2021.

. 2021 Sep 28;18(9):697-701.

doi: 10.11909/j.issn.1671-5411.2021.09.009.

¹ Beijing Anzhen Hospital, Capital Medical University; Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Disease; The Key Laboratory of Remodeling-related Cardiovascular Disease, Ministry of Education; Beijing, China.

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