Pediatric radiofrequency catheter ablation - Sedation methods and success, complication and recurrence rates

Circulation Journal

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 278-284

  Joung, Boyoung ^a   Lee, Moonhyoung ^a   Sung, Jung Hoon ^a   Kim, Jong Youn ^a   Ahn, Shinki ^a   Kim, Sungsoon ^a,b  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Yonsei University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Pediatric patients; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; SEDATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ARRHYTHMIA; CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPNOTICS AND SEDATIVES; INFANT; MALE; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 33644601603     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.70.278     Document Type: Article

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