Pulmonary vein ostium shape and orientation as possible predictors of occlusion in patients with drug-refractory paroxysmal atrial fibrillation undergoing cryoballoon ablation

Europace

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 205-212

  Sorgente, Antonio ^a,b   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Sarkozy, Andrea ^a   Namdar, Mehdi ^a   Capulzini, Lucio ^a   Yazaki, Yoshinao ^a   Mller Burri, Stephan Andreas ^a   Bayrak, Fatih ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; Pulmonary vein shape

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRYOABLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; DRUG RESISTANCE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251500387     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq388     Document Type: Article

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