Successful transcatheter removal of entrapped ablation catheter in mitral valve prosthesis

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 956-958

  Mehta, Davendra ^a   Love, Barry ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; HEPARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CASE REPORT; DEVICE REMOVAL; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RESPIRATORY TRACT INTUBATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 34250748606     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.02.020     Document Type: Article

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