Initial experience with the Mesh catheter for pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1510-1516

  Mansour, Moussa ^a,b   Forleo, Giovanni B ^b   Pappalardo, Augusto ^b   Heist, E Kevin ^a   Avella, Andrea ^b   Laurenzi, Francesco ^b   De Girolamo, Piergiuseppe ^b   Bencardino, Gianluigi ^b   Dello Russo, Antonio ^b   Mantica, Massimo ^b   Ruskin, Jeremy N ^a   Tondo, Claudio ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Balloon catheter; Catheter ablation; Mesh ablator; Pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 57649106622     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.08.024     Document Type: Article

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