Prevalence and characteristics of asymptomatic excessive transmural injury after radiofrequency catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 826-832

  Yamasaki, Hiro ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Sekiguchi, Yukio ^a   Igarashi, Miyako ^a   Arimoto, Takanori ^a   MacHino, Takeshi ^a   Ozawa, Mahito ^a   Naruse, Yoshihisa ^a   Kuroki, Kenji ^a   Tsuneoka, Hidekazu ^a   Ito, Yoko ^a   Murakoshi, Nobuyuki ^a   Kuga, Keisuke ^a   Hyodo, Ichinosuke ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Body mass index; Excessive transmural injury

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; ENDOSCOPY; ENERGY RESOURCE; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; TREATMENT DURATION; UNDERWEIGHT;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART INJURIES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 79957706725     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.01.045     Document Type: Article

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