Determinants of lesion sizes and tissue temperatures during catheter cryoablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 644-654

  Wood, Mark A ^a   Parvez, Babar ^a   Ellenbogen, Amy L ^a   Shaffer, Katherine M ^a   Goldberg, Scott M ^a   Gaspar, Michael P ^a   Arief, Isti ^a   Schubert, Christine M ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Convective warming; Cryoablation; Lesion size; Temperature

Indexed keywords

SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER CRYOABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COOLING; CRYOABLATION; ELECTRODE; FLOW RATE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LOW TEMPERATURE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRESSURE; SWINE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TISSUE; WARMING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTRODES; HEART VENTRICLES; LINEAR MODELS; SWINE; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34247518665     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00726.x     Document Type: Article

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