Luminal esophageal temperature predicts esophageal lesions after second-generation cryoballoon pulmonary vein isolation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 789-793

  Fürnkranz, Alexander ^a   Bordignon, Stefano ^a   Schmidt, Boris ^a   Böhmig, Michael ^b   Böhmer, Marie Christine ^b   Bode, Frank ^c   Schulte Hahn, Britta ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^a   Dignaß, Axel U ^b   Chun, Julian K R ^a  

^a CARDIOANGIOLOGISCHES CENTRUM BETHANIEN   (Germany)

^b AGAPLESION MARKUS KRANKENHAUS   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Balloon; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COOLING; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON; DEVICE SAFETY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; FREEZING; GASTROSCOPY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LUMINAL ESOPHAGEAL TEMPERATURE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE FUNCTION; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WOUND HEALING;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY TEMPERATURE; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ESOPHAGEAL DISEASES; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84883789878     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.02.021     Document Type: Article

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