Effect of isthmus anatomy and ablation catheter on radiofrequency catheter ablation of the cavotricuspid isthmus

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1030-1035

  Da Costa, Antoine ^a,c   Faure, Emmanuel ^a   Thévenin, Jérôme ^a   Messier, Marc ^b   Bernard, Samuel ^a   Abdel, Kihel ^a   Robin, Christophe ^a   Romeyer, Cécile ^a   Isaaz, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c HÔPITAL NORD   (France)

Author keywords

Angiography; Atrial flutter; Catheter ablation; Structure

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; IMAGING; IRRIGATED COOLED TIP CATHETER; ISTHMOGRAM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; X RAY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; CINEANGIOGRAPHY; COLD; CONTRAST MEDIA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENAE CAVAE;

EID: 4844229375     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000139845.40818.75     Document Type: Article

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