Left atrial and pulmonary vein ostial ablation as a new treatment for curing persistent atrial fibrillation: Initial experience and results

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 1057-1063

  Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Kurosaki, Kenji ^a   Ito, Sachiko ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a   Miyaji, Kohei ^a   Hashimoto, Tohru ^a   Yoshimura, Yuko ^a   Nogami, Akihiko ^b   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Left atrium; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; LEFT ATRIAL CATHETER ABLATION; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SINUS RHYTHM; STROKE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 27744598068     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.1057     Document Type: Article

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