Steerable sheath catheter navigation for ablation of atrial fibrillation: A case-control study

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 863-873

  Piorkowski, Christopher ^a   Kottkamp, Hans ^b   Gerds Li, Jin Hong ^a   Arya, Arash ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Dagres, Nicos ^a   Esato, Masahiro ^a   Riahi, Sam ^a   Weiss, Sebastian ^a   Kircher, Simon ^a   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b KLINIK HIRSLANDEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Clinical; Electrophysiology; New technology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CATHETER ABLATION; GERMANY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 55249095395     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01101.x     Document Type: Article

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