Use of transesophageal echocardiography in radiofrequency catheter ablation in children and adolescents

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 519-523

  Kantoch, Michal J ^a   Frost, Gerhard F ^a   Robertson, Murray A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Radiofrequency catheter ablation; Transseptal puncture

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART INJURY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HEPARINIZATION; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PUNCTURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT SAFETY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTUM; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PUNCTURES; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031954010     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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