Novel electromyographic monitoring technique for prevention of right phrenic nerve palsy during cryoballoon ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1109-1114

  Franceschi, Frédéric ^a   Koutbi, Linda ^a   Mancini, Julien ^a,b   Attarian, Shahram ^a   Prevôt, Sébastien ^a   Deharo, Jean Claude ^a  

^a TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIV   (France)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Phrenic nerve

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BREATHING MECHANICS; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; CRYOABLATION; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GROIN HEMATOMA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMIDIAPHRAGM; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; LIVER VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR UNIT POTENTIAL; NERVE PARALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PHRENIC NERVE; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 84892150254     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.113.000517     Document Type: Article

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