Radiofrequency current delivery via transseptal needle to facilitate septal puncture

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 1573-1576

  Bidart, Chad ^a   Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Cesario, David A ^a   Mahajan, Aman ^a   Fujimura, Osamu ^a   Boyle, Noel G ^a   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Catheter ablation; Electrocautery; Transseptal catheterization

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; INSULIN; OXYGEN; STEROID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST CANCER; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUTERIZATION; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; CORONARY STENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MASTECTOMY; NEEDLE; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL SEPTUM; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 36749030018     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.07.008     Document Type: Article

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