Ablation of atrial-ventricular junction tissues via the coronary sinus using cryo balloon technology

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 203-211

  Avitall, Boaz ^a   Lafontaine, Daniel ^c   Rozmus, Grzegorz ^b   Adoni, Naveed ^b   Dehnee, Abed ^b   Urbonas, Arvydas ^a   Le, Khoi M ^b   Aleksonis, Dinas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b ADVOCATE ILLINOIS MASONIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Boston Scientific   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Coronary sinus; Cryoablation

Indexed keywords

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CANAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY CIRCUMFLEX BRANCH; CORONARY SINUS; CRYOPRECIPITATION; DOG; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMATOMA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; ISOLATED HEART; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; TISSUE SECTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CRYOSURGERY; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC;

EID: 23944505567     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-005-0339-5     Document Type: Article

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