Impedance monitoring during catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 914-920

  Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Cesario, David A ^a   Valderrabano, Miguel ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Ratib, Osman ^a   Finn, J Paul ^a   Wiener, Isaac ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Impedance; Pulmonary vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; IN VITRO STUDY; LUNG VEIN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT MONITORING; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LOS ANGELES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION;

EID: 25444504780     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.06.007     Document Type: Article

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