Esophageal imaging and strategies for avoiding injury during left atrial ablation for atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1156-1161

  Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Lin, David ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Patel, Vickas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrium; Catheter ablation; Echocardiography; Esophagus; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOGRAPHY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; TITRIMETRY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 33749045421     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.06.006     Document Type: Article

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