Focal and linear endocardial and epicardial catheter-based cryoablation of normal and infarcted ventricular tissue

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1322-1331

  D'Avila, André ^a,d   Aryana, Arash ^a   Thiagalingam, Aravinda ^a   Holmvang, Godtfred ^a   Schmidt, Ehud ^b   Gutierrez, Paulo ^c   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a   Reddy, Vivek Y ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b General Electric Medical Systems Information Technology   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Clinical; Electrophysiology; Mapping; New technology; VT

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART INFARCTION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 51849152038     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01184.x     Document Type: Article

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