Transient ST-segment-elevation during pulmonary vein ablation using circumferential coiled microelectrodes in a prospective multi-centre study

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 178-181

  Risius, Tim ^a   Lewalter, Thorsten ^b   Lüderitz, Berndt ^b   Schwab, Jörg O ^b   Spitzer, Stefan ^c   Schmitt, Claus ^d   Vester, Ernst ^e   Rostock, Thomas ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a   Willems, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^e Evangelic Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Pulmonary vein; ST segment elevation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; ECG ABNORMALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN; MALE; MICROELECTRODE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INSTRUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MICROELECTRODES; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 33646846809     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euj013     Document Type: Article

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