Percutaneous epicardial ventricular tachycardia ablation after noncoronary cardiac surgery or pericarditis

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 165-169

  Tschabrunn, Cory M ^a   Haqqani, Haris M ^a   Cooper, Joshua M ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Zado, Erica S ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Adhesions; Cardiac surgery; Epicardial access; Mapping; Pericarditis; Pericardium; Ventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PROTAMINE SULFATE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART SURGERY; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA ABLATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR ACCESS; VEIN PUNCTURE;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDITIS; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; SURVIVAL RATE; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE ADHESIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84873702074     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.012     Document Type: Article

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