Contemporary outcomes of supraventricular tachycardia ablation in congenital heart disease a single-center experience in 116 patients

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 606-613

  Ueda, Akiko ^a   Suman Horduna, Irina ^a   Mantziari, Lilian ^a   Gujic, Marko ^a   Marchese, Procolo ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^a   Babu Narayan, Sonya V ^a   Ernst, Sabine ^b,c  

^a ROYAL BROMPTON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ablation; Congenital heart disease; Mapping; Supraventricular; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ADULT; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CATHETER ABLATION; CAVOPULMONARY CONNECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DOUBLE OUTLET; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; STEADY STATE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRICUSPID VALVE ATRESIA; VASCULAR ACCESS; ABLATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; MAPPING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ABLATION; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; MAPPING; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84882993973     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000415     Document Type: Article

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