Cryoballoon catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation

Cardiology Research and Practice

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Mansour, Moussa ^a   Ozcan, Cevher ^a   Ruskin, Jeremy ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITROUS OXIDE;

ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; BALLOON CATHETER; BRAIN EMBOLISM; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON CATHETER ABLATION; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FREEZING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART SUPRAVENTRICULAR ARRHYTHMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; NERVE PARALYSIS; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; REVIEW; SINUS RHYTHM; THROMBOGENICITY;

EID: 80052664949     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20900597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4061/2011/256347     Document Type: Review

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