Locations of high contact force during left atrial mapping in atrial fibrillation patients: Electrogram amplitude and impedance are poor predictors of electrode-tissue contact force for ablation of atrial fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 746-753

  Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Kautzner, Josef ^b   Natale, Andrea ^c   Peichl, Petr ^b   Cihak, Robert ^b   Wichterle, Dan ^b   Ikeda, Atsushi ^a   Santangeli, Pasquale ^c   Di Biase, Luigi ^c   Jackman, Warren M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

^c TEXAS CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIA INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology mapping; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCENDING AORTA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; IMPEDANCE; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE INJURY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY MAPPING; RADIOFREQUENCY;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ELECTRODES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84884505052     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.978320     Document Type: Article

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