Electrical isolation of the superior vena cava using upstream phrenic pacing to avoid phrenic nerve injury

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1053-1060

  Kimura, Takehiro ^a   Takatsuki, Seiji ^a   Fukumoto, Kotaro ^a   Nishiyama, Nobuhiro ^a   Sato, Yuriko ^b   Aizawa, Yoshiyasu ^a   Fukuda, Yukiko ^a   Sato, Toshiaki ^c   Miyoshi, Shunichiro ^a   Fukuda, Keiichi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Kawakita General Hospital   (Japan)

^c KYORIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; phrenic nerve injury; phrenic pacing; SVC isolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PATIENT SAFETY; PHRENIC NERVE; RADIOFREQUENCY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA ISOLATION; TREATMENT FAILURE; WEAKNESS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVE INJURIES; PHRENIC NERVE;

EID: 84866175478     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2012.03465.x     Document Type: Article

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