Isolating the pulmonary veins as first-line therapy in patients with lone paroxysmal atrial fibrillation using the Cryoballoon

Europace

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 197-203

  Namdar, Mehdi ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a,b   Westra, Sjoerd ^b   Sorgente, Antonio ^a,c   Meir, Mark La ^a   Bayrak, Fatih ^a   Rao, Jayakeerthi Y ^a   Ricciardi, Danilo ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Sarkozy, Andrea ^a   Smeets, Joep ^b   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF L'AQUILA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; First line treatment

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LONE PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856292930     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eur299     Document Type: Article

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