How to do circular mapping catheter-guided pulmonary vein antrum isolation: The Cleveland Clinic approach

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 866-869

  Kanj, Mohamed H ^a   Wazni, Oussama M ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIRECT CURRENT; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTRAVASCULAR CATHETER; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 33745491977     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.02.1033     Document Type: Note

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