Clinical presentation, investigation, and management of pulmonary vein stenosis complicating ablation for atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 111, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 546-554

  Packer, Douglas L ^a,b   Keelan, Paul ^a   Munger, Thomas M ^a   Breen, Jerome F ^a   Asirvatham, Sam ^a   Peterson, Laura A ^a   Monahan, Kristi H ^a   Hauser, Mary F ^a   Chandrasekaran, K ^a   Sinak, Lawrence J ^a   Holmes Jr , David R ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b ST MARY S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation, catheter; Fibrillation, atrial; Pulmonary heart disease; Stenosis; Stents

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON DILATATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IN-STENT RESTENOSIS; LUNG PERFUSION; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 13444259334     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000154541.58478.36     Document Type: Article

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