Efficacy and risk of atrial fibrillation ablation before 45 years of age

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 452-457

  Leong Sit, Peter ^a,c   Zado, Erica ^b   Callans, David J ^b   Garcia, Fermin ^b   Lin, David ^b   Dixit, Sanjay ^b   Bala, Rupa ^b   Riley, Michael P ^b   Hutchinson, Mathew D ^b   Cooper, Joshua ^b   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^b   Marchlinski, Francis E ^b  

^a London Health Science Center   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Catheter ablation; Complications; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DRUG USE; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; NEWBORN; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; RISK; SAFETY; SCHOOL CHILD; STROKE; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AGE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 78049508429     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.938860     Document Type: Article

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