Influence of patient factors and ablative technologies on outcomes of radiofrequency ablation of intra-atrial re-entrant tachycardia in patients with congenital heart disease

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1827-1835

  Triedman, John K ^a   Alexander, Mark E ^a   Love, Barry A ^b   Collins, Kathryn K ^c   Berul, Charles I ^a   Bevilacqua, Laura M ^a   Walsh, Edward P ^a  

^a BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MONTREAL CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037024305     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01858-2     Document Type: Article

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