Easy pulmonary vein isolation using epicardial cryoablation

Surgery Today

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 198-200

  Nakamura, Yoshitsugu ^a   Nakano, Kiyoharu ^a   Nakatani, Hayao ^a   Gomi, Akihiko ^a   Sato, Atsuhiko ^a   Sughimoto, Koichi ^a  

^a Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Medical Center Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Maze

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEAT TRANSFER; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 31544449135     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-005-3133-1     Document Type: Article

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