Low Incidence of Significant Valvar Insufficiency Following Retrograde Aortic Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation in Young Patients

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 181-185

  Frias, Patricia A ^a,b   Taylor, Mary B ^a   Kavanaugh McHugh, Ann ^a   Fish, Frank A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MCN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Mitral insufficiency; Pediatrics; Tachycardia; Transseptal

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AORTA; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA; AORTIC VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0033158633     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009885917479     Document Type: Article

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