Specific linear left atrial lesions in atrial fibrillation: Intraoperative radiofrequency ablation using minimally invasive surgical techniques

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 475-480

  Kottkamp, Hans ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Autschbach, R udiger ^a   Krauss, Beate ^a   Strasser, Bernhard ^a   Schirdewahn, Petra ^a   Fabricius, Alexander ^a   Schuler, Gerhard ^a   Mohr, Friedrich Wilhelm ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REOPERATION; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037036825     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)01993-9     Document Type: Article

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