Catheter cryoablation of supraventricular tachycardia: Quo vadis?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 139-140

  Estes III, N A Mark ^a  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOTHERAPY; EDITORIAL; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; RISK REDUCTION; SAFETY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOGENESIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 3042730552     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.03.056     Document Type: Editorial

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