Circumflex artery stenosis induced by intraoperative radiofrequency ablation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1291-1293

  Fayad, Georges ^a   Modine, Thomas ^b   Le Tourneau, Thierry ^b   Decoene, Christophe ^b   Azzaoui, Richard ^b   Al Ruzzeh, Sharif ^b   Lablanche, Jean Marc ^b   Warembourg, Henri ^b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANGINA PECTORIS; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; LUNG EDEMA; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY STENOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0141450783     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00476-4     Document Type: Article

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