How to perform encircling ablation of the left atrium

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1105-1109

  Pappone, Carlo ^a   Santinelli, Vincenzo ^a  

^a SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; LUNG VEIN OBSTRUCTION; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; STROKE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBUS; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT INDICATION; VAGOTOMY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS;

EID: 33747851692     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.03.003     Document Type: Article

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