First experience with real-time three-dimensional transoesophageal echocardiography-guided transseptal in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation

Europace

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1325-1328

  Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a   Capulzini, Lucio ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Sarkozy, Andrea ^a   Roos, Markus ^a   Paparella, Gaetano ^a   Boussy, Tim ^a   Van Camp, Guy ^a   Kerkhove, Dirk ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation ablation; Real Time 3D echocardiography; Transseptal puncture

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PILOT PROJECTS; PUNCTURES; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249088058     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eun275     Document Type: Article

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