How to perform an endomyocardial biopsy?

Turk Kardiyol Dern Ars. 2015 Sep;43(6):572-5. doi: 10.5543/tkda.2015.91298.

Authors

Carsten Tschöpe¹, Behrouz Kherad², Heinz-Peter Schultheiss³

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany; Berlin Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Berlin, Germany; German Centre for Cardiovascular Research (DZHK), Center, Berlin, Germany.
² Department of Cardiology, Charité, Campus Virchow, Berlin, Germany.
³ Institut für Kardiale Diagnostik und Therapie (IKDT), Berlin, Germany.

PMID: 26363754
DOI: 10.5543/tkda.2015.91298

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Biopsy / instrumentation
Biopsy / methods
Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / pathology*
Fluoroscopy
Humans
Myocarditis / pathology*
Myocardium / pathology*