High prevalence of cooled tip use as compared with 8-mm tip in a multicenter Italian registry on atrial fibrillation ablation: Focus on procedural safety

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 888-892

  Zoppo, Franco ^a,l   Bertaglia, Emanuele ^a   Tondo, Claudio ^b   Colella, Andrea ^c   Mantovan, Roberto ^d   Senatore, Gaetano ^e   Bottoni, Nicola ^f   Carreras, Giovanni ^g   Corò, Leonardo ^h   Turco, Pietro ⁱ   Mantica, Massimo ^j   Stabile, Giuseppe ^k  

^a Cardiology Department Mirano (Venice)   (Italy)

^b SAN CAMILLO FORLANINI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^c CAREGGI UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d CA FONCELLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e Civic Hospital Cirie (Turin)   (Italy)

^f S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^g Santa Maria of Loreto Hospital   (Italy)

^h Civic Hospital Conegliano   (Italy)

ⁱ MARIA CECILIA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^j Sant'Ambrogio Hospital   (Italy)

^k Presidio Ospedaliero di Conegliano   (Italy)

^l NONE   (Italy)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AORTA RUPTURE; ARTICLE; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEALTH CENTER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART SIZE; HEART TAMPONADE; HISTORY; HUMAN; INGUINAL REGION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NERVE LESION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PLEURA EFFUSION; PNEUMOTHORAX; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; REGISTER; RISK; SAFETY; TECHNOLOGY; VASCULAR DISEASE; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 55249113437     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e3282f7352a     Document Type: Article

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