The anatomic impact of sequential, additional, ostial radiofrequency ablation following pulmonary vein cryo-isolation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1420-1427

  Traullé, Sarah ^a   Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^b   Mouquet, Vincent ^a   Kubala, MacIej ^a   Hermida, Jean Sylvain ^a  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; cryoablation; pulmonary vein isolation; radiofrequency; stenosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOTHERAPY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; PULMONARY VENO-OCCLUSIVE DISEASE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84870897333     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2012.03521.x     Document Type: Article

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