Cryoablation inside the pulmonary vein after failure of radiofrequency antral isolation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 992-996

  Kenigsberg, David N ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Alaeddini, Jamshid ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation ablation; Cryoablation; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT SAFETY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; TIME; TREATMENT FAILURE; VEIN DIAMETER;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT FAILURE;

EID: 34547403307     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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