Radiofrequency catheter ablation using cooled electrodes: Impact of irrigation flow rate and catheter contact pressure on lesion dimensions

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 463-469

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Antz, Matthias ^b   Eick, Olaf ^c   Eshagzaiy, Kablai ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a   Willems, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Ablation electrodes; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; HEPARINIZATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE; THIGH; THROMBOGENESIS;

ANIMALS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRODES; FEMALE; IRRIGATION; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; RHEOLOGY; RISK FACTORS; SHEEP; TEMPERATURE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036224441     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.00463.x     Document Type: Article

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