Noncontact system-guided simplified right atrial linear lesions using radiofrequency transcatheter ablation for treatment of refractory atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11 II, 2000, Pages 1843-1847

  Gasparini, Maurizio ^a   Coltorti, Fernando ^a   Mantica, Massimo ^a   Galimberti, Paola ^a   Ceriotti, Carlo ^a   Beatty, Graydon ^b  

^a HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^b Endocardial Solutions Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Linear lesions; Noncontact mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RADIOFREQUENCY; SCREENING TEST; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLECAINIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPAFENONE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0033674778     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb07034.x     Document Type: Article

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