Feasibility of endoscopic guidance for nonsurgical transthoracic atrial and ventricular epicardial ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1115-1119

  Nazarian, Saman ^c   Kantsevoy, Sergey V ^a   Zviman, Menekhem M ^c   Matsen III, Fredrick A ^b   Calkins, Hugh ^c   Berger, Ronald D ^c   Halperin, Henry R ^c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Electrophysiologic study; Endoscopy; Epicardial ablation; Pericardial space

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY BLOOD VESSEL; CORONARY SINUS; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY; EPICARDIUM; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERICARDIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SWINE; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART VENTRICLES; PERICARDIUM; SWINE; THORACOSCOPY;

EID: 50949132304     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.05.004     Document Type: Article

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