Pulmonary vein antrum isolation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 3 SUPPL., 2007, Pages

  Kanj, Mohamed ^a   Wazni, Oussama ^a   Natale, Andrea ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Antrum ablation; Atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; Intracardiac echocardiography

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN;

ARTICLE; BOLUS INJECTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SAFETY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE; VASCULAR DISEASE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 33847250493     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.12.036     Document Type: Article

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