The convergent procedure: A multidisciplinary atrial fibrillation treatment

Heart Surgery Forum

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Kiser, Andy C ^a   Landers, Mark ^a   Horton, Rodney ^b   Hume, Andrew ^b   Natale, Andrea ^b   Gersak, Borut ^c  

^a Moore Regional Hospital   (United States)

^b TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ENOXAPARIN; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONVERGENT PROCEDURE; CORONARY SINUS; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; LONGSTANDING PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; NERVE PARALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT DURATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; ENDOCARDIUM; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; PERICARDIUM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049385246     PISSN: 10983511     EISSN: 15226662     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1532/HSF98.20091112     Document Type: Article

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