Is there an evidence of pulmonary vein stenosis following epicardial microwave ablation of atrial fibrillation?

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 193-197

  Von Bary, Christian ^a   Mazzitelli, Domenico ^a   Nöbauer, Christian ^a   Hausleiter, Jörg ^a   Lange, Rüdiger ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac imaging; Epicardial ablation; Pulmonary vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTIC VALVE REPAIR; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL MICROWAVE ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE REPAIR; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE REPAIR;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROSURGERY; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROWAVES; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE;

EID: 68749097031     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-009-9366-y     Document Type: Article

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