One-year follow-up in a prospective, randomized study comparing radiofrequency and cryoablation of arrhythmias in Koch's triangle: Clinical symptoms and event recording

Europace

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 592-595

  Kimman, Geert Jan P ^a   Theuns, Dominic A M J ^b   Janse, Petter A ^b   Rivero Ayerza, Maximo ^b   Scholten, Marcoen F ^b   Szili Torok, Tamas ^c   Jordaens, Luc J ^b  

^a Location Alkmaar   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Hungarian Institute of Cardiology   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Accessory pathway; Atrioventricular reentrant tachycardia; Cryoablation; Event recording; Long term follow up; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; REOPERATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; THORAX PAIN;

ARRHYTHMIA; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33748087486     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eul051     Document Type: Article

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