Continuous positive airway pressure after circumferential pulmonary vein isolation: The recipe for improving the success rate of ablation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and atrial fibrillation?

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 306-307

  Belhassen, Bernard ^a,b  

^a TEL AVIV SOURASKY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

ablation; atrial fibrillation; continuous positive airway pressure; obstructive sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPERCAPNIA; HYPOXIA; MORBIDITY; NOTE; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; RISK REDUCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; SLEEP DISORDERED BREATHING; SMOKING; THERAPY EFFECT; TRACHEA PRESSURE;

EID: 84880317247     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.03.053     Document Type: Editorial

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