Left ventricular endomyocardial biopsy guided by intracardiac echocardiography via a trans-septal approach
Yasuhiro Yokoyama1, Kenichiro Yamagata2, Hideaki Kanzaki1
1Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Suita, Osaka, Japan.
BMJ Case Reports
|July 13, 2021
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