Acute occlusion of left circumflex artery following radiofrequency catheter ablation at the mitral isthmus

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 743-745

  Wong, Kelvin C K ^a   Sadarmin, Praveen P ^a   Prendergast, Bernard D ^a   Betts, Timothy R ^a  

^a OXFORD UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY RISK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ST SEGMENT DEPRESSION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; CORONARY OCCLUSION; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; RADIOGRAPHY; TACHYCARDIA;

CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY OCCLUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 77951960697     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup447     Document Type: Article

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