Total pulmonary vein occlusion complicating pulmonary vein isolation: Diagnosis and treatment

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1233-1239

  Prieto, Lourdes R ^a   Kawai, Yu ^b   Worley, Sarah E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Angioplasty; Atrial fibrillation; Pulmonary vein isolation; Pulmonary vein stenosis; Stent; Total occlusion

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HUMAN; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RECANALIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PERFUSION IMAGING; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956230064     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.03.003     Document Type: Article

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