Catheter and surgical ablation strategies in atrial fibrillation: What have we learned?

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 26-30

  Lemery, Robert ^a   Guiraudon, Gérard ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac mapping; Cardiac surgery; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENERVATION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGOTOMY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE;

EID: 11144273797     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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