Role of continuous monitoring for optimizing management strategies in patients with early arrhythmia recurrences after atrial fibrillation ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 791-793

  Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Editorials; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION ABLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR EQUIPMENT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; P WAVE; PATIENT MONITORING; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; NOTE; PULMONARY VEIN;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84857077762     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.968073     Document Type: Review

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