Long-term results of cryoablation with a new cryoprobe to eliminate chronic atrial fibrillation associated with mitral valve disease

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2005, Pages

  Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Ito, Sachiko ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Hasegawa, Yutaka ^a   Kurosaki, Kenji ^a   Ezure, Masahiko ^a   Kaneko, Tatsuo ^a   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a   Nogami, Akihiko ^b  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoablation; Mitral valve disease; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANNULOPLASTY; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOPROBE; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19944433596     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00011.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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