Complications of circumferential pulmonary vein isolation using the cryoballoon technique: Incidence and predictors

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 171, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 217-223

  Bohó, Alexander ^a,b   Mišíková, Silvia ^a   Spurný, Peter ^a   Komanová, Erika ^a   Sudzinová, Adriana ^a   Hudák, Marek ^a,c   Kerekanič, Michal ^a,c   Stančák, Branislav ^a,b  

^a Eastern Slovakia Institute of Cardiac and Vascular Diseases   (Slovakia)

^b P J AFÁRIK UNIVERSITY   (Slovakia)

^c Faculty of Natural Sciences   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Complications; Cryoballoon; Predictors

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ATROPINE; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DRONEDARONE; FLECAINIDE; HEPARIN; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ANEURYSM SURGERY; APHASIA; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; BODY HEIGHT; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DYSARTHRIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; GUIDE WIRE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE PARALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; VAGUS NERVE DISEASE;

ABLATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPLICATIONS; CRYOBALLOON; PREDICTORS;

AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84892843685     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2013.12.016     Document Type: Article

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