Platelet activation and myocardial necrosis in patients undergoing radiofrequency and cryoablation of isthmus-dependent atrial flutter

Europace

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 490-495

  Hochholzer, Willibald ^a   Schlittenhardt, Daniel ^a   Arentz, Thomas ^a   Stockinger, Jochem ^a   Weber, Reinhold ^a   Bürkle, Gerd ^a   Kalusche, Dietrich ^a   Trenk, Dietmar ^a   Neumann, Franz Josef ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER FREIBURG BAD KROZINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Cryoablation; Necrosis; Platelets; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE; PADGEM PROTEIN; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ASPIRIN; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; P-SELECTIN; PLATELET ACTIVATION; PLATELET FUNCTION TESTS; PLATELET MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEIN IIB; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TROPONIN T;

EID: 34547887990     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eum039     Document Type: Article

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