Remote magnetic catheter navigation for cavotricuspid isthmus ablation in patients with common-type atrial flutter

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 603-610

  Vollmann, Dirk ^a   Lüthje, Lars ^a   Seegers, Joachim ^a   Hasenfuss, Gerd ^a   Zabel, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Catheter ablation; Remote navigation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANATOMY; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK REDUCTION; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAGNETISM; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROBOTICS; TIME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MAGNETICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RECURRENCE; ROBOTICS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 73949093115     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.109.884411     Document Type: Article

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