Effectiveness of esophagus detection by three-dimensional electroanatomical mapping to avoid esophageal injury during ablation of atrial fibrillation

Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-125

  Maenosono, Ryuichi ^a,b   Oketani, Naoya ^b   Ishida, Sanemasa ^b   Iriki, Yasuhisa ^b   Ichiki, Hitoshi ^b   Okui, Hideki ^b   Ninomiya, Yuichi ^b   Hamasaki, Shuichi ^b   Namino, Fuminori ^a   Matsushita, Masakaze ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^b   Hashiguchi, Teruto ^a,b  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Complex fractionated atrial electrogram; Esophageal temperature

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; TEMPERATURE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CATHETER ABLATION; ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FISTULA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84865349997     PISSN: 09145087     EISSN: 18764738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjcc.2012.02.009     Document Type: Article

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