Demand for open heart surgery due to entrapment of a circular mapping catheter in the mitral valve in a patient undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 97, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 628-629

  Grove, Rainer ^a   Kranig, Wolfgang ^a   Coppoolse, Ruud ^a   Lüdorff, Guido ^a   Wolff, Endrik ^a   Warnecke, Henning ^a   Thale, Joachim ^a  

^a Schuchtermann Klinik   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; FLECAINIDE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PULMONARY VEIN; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE;

EID: 51349116397     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-008-0677-2     Document Type: Letter

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