Linear catheter ablation of the right atrium for rapid atrial pacing-induced sustained atrial fibrillation in dogs: Comparison of large-tip, coil-tip, and cooled-tip catheter ablations

International Heart Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 375-382

  Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Kogawa, Rikitake ^a   Sasaki, Naoko ^a   Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Kofune, Yoshi ^a   Nagashima, Koichi ^a   Sonoda, Kazumasa ^a   Mano, Hiroaki ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Linear lesion; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE OUTCOME; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR EFFECT; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE DURATION; DOG; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HEMOPERICARDIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THERAPY EFFECT; ANIMAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE MODEL; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM;

EID: 84873727688     PISSN: 13492365     EISSN: 13493299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/ihj.53.375     Document Type: Article

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