Outcomes and complications of catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation in females

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 167-172

  Patel, Dimpi ^a   Mohanty, Prasant ^a   Di Biase, Luigi ^a,b,c   Sanchez, Javier E ^a   Shaheen, Mazen H ^d   Burkhardt, J David ^a   Bassouni, Mohammed ^e   Cummings, Jennifer ^f   Wang, Yan ^a   Lewis, William R ^g   Diaz, Alberto ^g   Horton, Rodney P ^a,c   Beheiry, Salwa ^h   Hongo, Richard ^h   Gallinghouse, G Joseph ^a   Zagrodzky, Jason D ^a   Bailey, Shane M ^a   Al Ahmad, Amin ⁱ   Wang, Paul ⁱ   Schweikert, Robert A ^f   Natale, Andrea ^a,c   more..

^a Texas Cardiac Arrhythmia Institute   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FOGGIA   (Italy)

^c The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^e CAIRO UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^f Akron General Hospital   (United States)

^g MetroHealth Medical Center   (United States)

^h CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Female; gender; Hematoma; Nonantral firing; Pulmonary vein isolation; Referral patterns

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTAMINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PATIENT REFERRAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ANTRUM ISOLATION; SAFETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY VEINS; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 74649083969     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.10.025     Document Type: Article

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