Staged circumferential and ostial pulmonary vein ablation for the treatment of paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 102-108

  Katritsis, Demosthenes ^a,c   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Kourlaba, Georgia ^a   Voridis, Eutychios ^a   Camm, A John ^b  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Athens Euroclinic   (Greece)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL PULMONARY VEIN ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LOG RANK TEST; MALE; OSTIAL PULMONARY VEIN ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 33846269989     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00571.x     Document Type: Article

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