Interventional and surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias in adults with congenital heart disease

Expert Review of Cardiovascular Therapy

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1753-1766

  Koyak, Zeliha ^a,b   De Groot, Joris R ^a   Mulder, Barbara J M ^a,b  

^a ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

ablation; arrhythmia; arrhythmia surgery; congenital heart disease; implantable cardioverter defibrillator; mapping; pacemaker

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DOFETILIDE;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC RESYNCHRONIZATION THERAPY; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; DEFIBRILLATOR; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ATRIUM REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART DOUBLE INLET VENTRICLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VALVE ATRESIA; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; STENT; SUDDEN DEATH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649650735     PISSN: 14779072     EISSN: 17448344     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/erc.10.152     Document Type: Review

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