Transseptal access for pulmonary vein isolation in a patient with atrial septal closure device: Use of electrocautery and atrial septostomy

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 901-904

  Meas, Sinneary ^a   Del Carpio Munoz, Freddy ^a   Cetta, Frank ^a   Friedman, Paul ^a  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Atrial septostomy; Transseptal puncture

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DOFETILIDE; FLECAINIDE; QUINIDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIUM SEPTOSTOMY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CAUTERIZATION; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; TRICUSPID ANNULOPLASTY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL SEPTUM; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART SEPTAL DEFECTS, ATRIAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; SEPTAL OCCLUDER DEVICE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 79957692846     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.01.023     Document Type: Article

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