Phrenic nerve palsy during ablation of atrial fibrillation using a 28-mm cryoballoon catheter: Predictors and prevention

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-54

  Kühne, Michael ^a   Knecht, Sven ^a   Altmann, David ^a   Kawel, Nadine ^a   Ammann, Peter ^b   Schaer, Beat ^a   Osswald, Stefan ^a   Sticherling, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b Division of Cardiology   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; Phrenic nerve palsy; Pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CARDIAC PATIENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; CRYOBALLOON CATHETER; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FREEZING; GROIN HEMATOMA; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LOW TEMPERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE PARALYSIS; NERVE STIMULATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC-GATED IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84873715143     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-012-9740-z     Document Type: Article

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