Ablation of atrial fibrillation: Does the addition of three-dimensional magnetic resonance imaging of the left atrium to electroanatomic mapping improve the clinical outcome?

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1098-1104

  Caponi, Domenico ^a   Corleto, Antonella ^a   Scaglione, Marco ^a   Blandino, Alessandro ^a   Biasco, Luigi ^a   Cristoforetti, Yvonne ^a   Cerrato, Natascia ^a   Toso, Elisabetta ^a   Morello, Mara ^a   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Mapping systems

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; GADOBUTROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINUS RHYTHM; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; X RAY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIATION DOSAGE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955242207     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq107     Document Type: Article

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