Complete Pulmonary Venous Occlusion After Radiofrequency Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 292-295

  Nehra, Deepika ^a   Liberman, Moishe ^a   Vagefi, Parsia A ^a   Evans, Nathaniel ^a   Inglessis, Ignacio ^a   Kradin, Richard L ^a   Ono, Jill ^a   Kanarek, David J ^a   Gaissert, Henning A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; LUNG RESECTION; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL PERFUSION IMAGING; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 57649236041     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2008.06.060     Document Type: Article

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