Point-by-point pulmonary vein antrum isolation guided by intracardiac echocardiography and 3D mapping and duty-cycled multipolar AF ablation: Effect of multipolar ablation on procedure duration and fluoroscopy time

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 303-310

  Khaykin, Yaariv ^a   Zarnett, Lauren ^a   Friedlander, Daniel ^a   Wulffhart, Zaev A ^a   Whaley, Bonnie ^a   Giewercer, David ^a   Tsang, Bernice ^a   Verma, Atul ^a  

^a SOUTHLAKE REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

3D mapping; Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Dutycycled radiofrequency ablation; Pulmonary vein antrumisolation; PVAC

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84864685634     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-012-9676-3     Document Type: Article

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