Impact of beating heart left atrial ablation on left-sided heart mechanics

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 982-988

  Ota, Takeyoshi ^a   Schwartzman, David ^b   Francischelli, David ^c   Hettrick, Douglas A ^c   Zenati, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUT AND SEW COX MAZE PROCEDURE; DEVICE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITRAL VALVE; NONHUMAN; OFF PUMP SURGERY; PRESSURE VOLUME CURVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SYSTOLE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; SWINE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 34548832248     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2007.04.063     Document Type: Article

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