Esophageal temperature change and esophageal thermal lesions after pulmonary vein isolation using the novel endoscopic ablation system

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 815-820

  Metzner, Andreas ^a   Schmidt, Boris ^a   Fuernkranz, Alexander ^a   Wissner, Erik ^a   Tilz, Roland Richard ^a   Koester, Ilka ^a   Konstantinidou, Melanie ^a   Rillig, Andreas ^a   Yoshiga, Yazuhiro ^a   Mathew, Shibu ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Balloon catheter; Pulmonary vein isolation; Thermal lesion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BARRETT ESOPHAGUS; BODY TEMPERATURE MONITORING; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPIC ABLATION SYSTEM; ESOPHAGEAL THERMAL LESION; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; THERMAL INJURY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; BURNS, ELECTRIC; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ENDOSCOPES, GASTROINTESTINAL; ENDOSCOPY, GASTROINTESTINAL; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK FACTORS; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 79957773102     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.01.022     Document Type: Article

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