Full-motion two- and three-dimensional pulmonary vein imaging by intracardiac echocardiography after pulmonary vein isolation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 409-417

  Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Yamada, Takeshi ^a   Kawauchi, Kazunori ^a   Takagi, Yasuhiro ^a   Ashino, Sonoko ^a   Kofune, Masayoshi ^a   Kofune, Tatsuya ^a   Hashimoto, Kenichi ^a   Shindo, Atsushi ^a   Sugimura, Hidezou ^a   Nakai, Toshiko ^a   Kunimoto, Satoshi ^a   Saito, Satoshi ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Intracardiac echocardiography; Pulmonary vein isolation; Pulmonary vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; BEPRIDIL; HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DIZZINESS; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FATIGUE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CYCLE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; MORPHOLOGY; MOTION ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTION; PULMONARY VEINS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 41549122860     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01009.x     Document Type: Article

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