Immediate and medium-term outcomes of cryoballoon-based pulmonary vein isolation in patients with paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation: Single-centre experience

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 187-195

  Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Oto, Ali ^a   Canpolat, Uǧur ^b   Sunman, Hamza ^c   Yorgun, Hikmet ^a   Şahiner, Levent ^a   Kaya, Ergün Bariş ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^c DISKAPI YILDIRIM BEYAZIT TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon; Pulmonary vein isolation; Recurrence

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOABLATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SMOKING; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84889061467     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-013-9834-2     Document Type: Article

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