Canine model of esophageal injury and atrial-esophageal fistula after applications of forward-firing high-intensity focused ultrasound and side-firing unfocused ultrasound in the left atrium and inside the pulmonary vein

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 41-49

  Yokoyama, Katsuaki ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Seres, Kenneth A ^a   Jung, Eugene ^b   Merino, Jaime ^b   Zou, Yong ^b   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Pitha, Jan V ^a   Lazzara, Ralph ^a   Jackman, Warren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b ProRhythm Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial; Catheter ablation; Complications; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; EXPERIMENTAL DOG; HEART ATRIUM ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HIGH INTENSITY FOCUSED ULTRASOUND; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REFLUX ESOPHAGITIS; SIDE FIRING UNFOCUSED ULTRASOUND; TEMPERATURE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

ANIMALS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGITIS, PEPTIC; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; PULMONARY VEINS; TIME FACTORS; ULCER; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 70349308416     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.108.807925     Document Type: Article

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