Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation. Techniques and results

Arquivos Brasileiros de Cardiologia

Volumn 85, Issue 4, 2005, Pages

  Scanavacca, Mauricio ^a   Sosa, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATING CURRENT; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; STENOSIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31344434513     PISSN: 0066782X     EISSN: 16784170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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