Percutaneous intrapericardial echocardiography during catheter ablation: a feasibility study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1275-1282

  Horowitz, Barbara Natterson ^a   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a   Cesario, David A ^a   Buch, Eric ^a   Valderrábano, Miguel ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^b   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Echocardiographic imaging; Electrophysiology; Myocardial scars; Ventricular tachycardia; Voltage mapping

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE; LIDOCAINE; MEXILETINE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HEART VENTRICLE WALL MOTION; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS INTRAPERICARDIAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCAR FORMATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PERICARDIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 33750317932     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.07.025     Document Type: Article

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