Initial experience with circumferential pulmonary vein ablation guided by fusion of magnetic resonance imaging with three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping

Chinese Medical Journal

Volumn 119, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1047-1052

  Tang, Kai ^a   Ma, Jian ^a   Ma, Fu Sheng ^a   Jia, Yu He ^a   Zhang, Shu ^a  

^a FUWAI HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Circumferencial pulmonary vein ablation; Magnet resonance imaging; Three dimensional electroanatomic mapping

Indexed keywords

GADOLINIUM PENTETATE MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STROKE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TIME;

EID: 33745485628     PISSN: 03666999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00029330-200606020-00015     Document Type: Article

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