How to recognize, manage, and prevent complications during atrial fibrillation ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 108-115

  Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter Ablation

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PROTAMINE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ALLERGIC REACTION; ANAPHYLAXIS; AORTA INJURY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FLUID RETENTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MITRAL VALVE; NERVE INJURY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STOMACH INJURY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 33845789249     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.10.034     Document Type: Article

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