Surgical Cryoablation for Life-Threatening Postoperative Junctional Tachycardia

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 286-288

  Tsoutsinos, Alexander J ^a   Papagiannis, John ^a   Chatzis, Andrew C ^a   Sarris, George E ^a  

^a ONASSIS CARDIAC SURGERY CENTER   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CONVALESCENCE; CRYOABLATION; FALLOT TETRALOGY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HUMAN; MALE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TACHYCARDIA; TETRALOGY OF FALLOT;

EID: 34250304600     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2007.02.052     Document Type: Article

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