Paediatric catheter cryoablation: Techniques, successes and failures

Current Opinion in Cardiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 81-84

  Drago, Fabrizio ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Children; Cryoablation; Supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

CATHETER; CRYOABLATION; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT FAILURE; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

CATHETER ABLATION; CHILD; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 40049104667     PISSN: 02684705     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/HCO.0b013e3282f39891     Document Type: Review

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