One-year follow-up after pulmonary vein isolation using a single mesh catheter in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 333-339

  Steinwender, Clemens ^a   Hönig, Simon ^a   Leisch, Franz ^a   Hofmann, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Mapping; Pulmonary vein isolation; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; SCREENING TEST;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77149158461     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.11.013     Document Type: Article

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