Efforts to enhance catheter stability improve atrial fibrillation ablation outcome

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 347-353

  Hutchinson, Mathew D ^a   Garcia, Fermin C ^a   Mandel, Jeff E ^a   Elkassabany, Nabil ^a   Zado, Erica S ^a   Riley, Michael P ^a   Cooper, Joshua M ^a   Bala, Rupa ^a   Frankel, David S ^a   Lin, David ^a   Supple, Gregory E ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

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

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; High frequency jet ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; BODY MASS; CATHETER ABLATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HIGH FREQUENCY VENTILATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMORRHAGE; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN RECONSTRUCTION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84875298175     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.044     Document Type: Article

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