Echocardiographic transponder-guided catheter ablation feasibility and accuracy

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 203-209

  Menz, Volker ^a   Vilkomerson, David ^a   Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Michele, John J ^a   Schwartzman, David ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b PRESBYTERIAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Cardiac; Catheter ablation; Echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SWINE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; MODELS, ANIMAL; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SWINE;

EID: 0034997365     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1011441827585     Document Type: Article

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