Incidence, time course, and characteristics of microbubble formation during radiofrequency ablation of pulmonary veins with an 8-mm ablation catheter

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 979-984

  Alaeddini, Jamshid ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Lee, Benjamin P ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a,b  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REACTION TIME; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33748707781     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00473.x     Document Type: Article

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