Safety and feasibility of cryothermal ablation within the mid- and distal coronary sinus

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1319-1323

  Skanes, Allan C ^a,b   Jones, Douglas L ^a   Teefy, Patrick ^a   Guiraudon, Colette ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a   Klein, George J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Cryothermy; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADVENTITIA; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERY SPASM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY SINUS; CRYOTHERAPY; CRYOTHERMAL ABLATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETER; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; SAFETY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVAL; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE NECROSIS;

ANIMALS; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOTHERAPY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VENTRICLES; HISTOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; MICROSCOPY, POLARIZATION; MODELS, ANIMAL; SAFETY; SWINE;

EID: 10044268474     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1540-8167.2004.04116.x     Document Type: Article

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