No severe pulmonary vein stenosis after extensive encircling pulmonary vein isolation: 12-month follow-up with 3D computed tomography

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 440-448

  Maeda, Shingo ^a,c   Iesaka, Yoshito ^b   Otomo, Kiyoshi ^b   Uno, Kikuya ^b   Nagata, Yasutoshi ^b   Suzuki, Kenji ^b   Hachiya, Hitoshi ^c   Goya, Masahiko ^d   Takahashi, Atsushi ^e   Fujiwara, Hideomi ^b   Isobe, Mitsuaki ^c  

^a MUSASHINO RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KOKURA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e YOKOSUKA KYOSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Extensive encircling pulmonary vein isolation; Multidetector computed tomography; Pulmonary vein stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATE; HEPARIN; ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; REMISSION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051469468     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: 16152573     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-010-0073-5     Document Type: Article

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