Different patterns of the fall of impedance as the result of heating during ostial pulmonary vein ablation: Implications for power titration

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1282-1291

  Reithmann, Christopher ^a   Remp, Thomas ^a   Hoffmann, Ellen ^b   Matis, Tomas ^a   Wakili, Reza ^a   Steinbeck, Gerhard ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b KLINIKUM BOGENHAUSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Impedance; Left atrium; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOPHYSICS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTRODE; EVALUATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEAT INJURY; HEATING; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPEDANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEASUREMENT; PULMONARY VEIN; SCINTIANGIOGRAPHY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VEIN OCCLUSION; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REOPERATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TEMPERATURE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; REOPERATION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TEMPERATURE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 33645051493     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00269.x     Document Type: Article

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