Feasibility of circumferential pulmonary vein isolation using a novel endoscopic ablation system

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 481-488

  Schmidt, Boris ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a   Chun, Kyoung Ryul Julian ^a   Leftheriotis, Dionysios ^a   Yoshiga, Yasuhiro ^a   Fuernkranz, Alexander ^a   Neven, Kars ^a   Tilz, Roland Richard ^a   Wissner, Erik ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Balloon; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEVICE; DIODE LASER; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS ULCER; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PATIENT MONITORING; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SAFETY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPE; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOLLOW UP; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; INNERVATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PAROXYSMAL TACHYCARDIA; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPES; ENDOSCOPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78049513556     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.110.954149     Document Type: Article

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