Transesophageal echocardiographic assessment of pulmonary veins and left atrium in patients undergoing atrial fibrillation ablation

Echocardiography

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 775-781

  Stavrakis, Stavros ^a,b   Madden, George ^b   Pokharel, Dipesh ^b   Po, Sunny S ^a,b   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Jackman, Warren M ^a,b   Sivaram, Chittur A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; pulmonary veins; transesophageal echocardiography

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CARDIAC PATIENT; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PULSE WAVE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMORBIDITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REOPERATION;

EID: 80051913591     PISSN: 07422822     EISSN: 15408175     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8175.2011.01431.x     Document Type: Article

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