Initial clinical experience with a remote magnetic catheter navigation system for ablation of cavotricuspid isthmus-dependent right atrial flutter

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 597-603

  Arya, Arash ^a   Kottkamp, Hans ^a   Piorkowski, Christopher ^a   Bollmann, Andreas ^a   Gerdes Li, Jin Hong ^a   Riahi, Sam ^a   Esato, Masahiro ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial flutter; Magnetic catheter; Mapping; Remote magnetic navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RHYTHM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RIGHT ATRIAL FLUTTER; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

AGED; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 42649135860     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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