Epicardial Beating Heart "Off-Pump" Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation in Non-Mitral Valve Patients Using New Irrigated Bipolar Radiofrequency Technology

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1876-1879

  Suwalski, Piotr ^a   Suwalski, Grzegorz ^a   Doll, Nicolas ^b   Majstrak, Franciszek ^a   Kurowski, Andrzej ^a   Suwalski, Kazimierz B ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEATH; DEVICE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; OFF PUMP SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33750076681     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2006.03.036     Document Type: Article

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