Atrioesophageal fistula after percutaneous transcatheter ablation of atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 125, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 966-

  Tancevski, Ivan ^a   Hintringer, Florian ^a   Stuehlinger, Markus ^a   Gassner, Eva Maria ^b   Bonaros, Nikolaos ^b   Mueller, Ludwig C ^b   Mair, Johannes ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTRIAXONE; TROPONIN T;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ATRIOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE NECROSIS; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NOTE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; FISTULA; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84857578462     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.111.044438     Document Type: Note

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