Transesophageal echocardiographic follow-up of pulmonary veins in patients undergoing ostial radiofrequency catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 6, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 595-600

  Artuso, Elisabetta ^a   Stomaci, Berardino ^a   Verlato, Roberto ^a   Turrini, Pietro ^a   Lafisca, Nicoò ^a   Baccillieri, Maria Stella ^a   Di Marco, Attilio ^a   Piovesana, Piergiuseppe ^a  

^a P Cosma Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Pulmonary vein stenosis; Transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 33645569825     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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