Rapid ventricular pacing: A fast, reliable, and safe technique for optimization of image acquisition during rotational angiography for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 349-352

  Hilbert, Sebastian ^a   Dagres, Nikolaos ^b   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Sommer, Philipp ^a   Gaspar, Thomas ^a   Rallidis, Loukianos S ^b   Kremastinos, Dimitrios Th ^b   Piorkowski, Christopher ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEIPZIG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL AND KAPODISTRIAN UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

3D reconstruction; Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Rapid pacing; Rotational angiography

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RAPID VENTRICULAR PACING; ROTATIONAL ANGIOGRAPHY; SAFETY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79959760349     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-010-0023-2     Document Type: Article

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