Recordings of diaphragmatic electromyograms during cryoballoon ablation for atrial fibrillation accurately predict phrenic nerve injury

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 369-374

  Lakhani, Mayur ^a   Saiful, Faisul ^a   Parikh, Valay ^a   Goyal, Nikhil ^a   Bekheit, Soad ^a   Kowalski, Marcin ^a  

^a STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoablation; Phrenic nerve injury

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOABLATION; PHRENIC NERVE INJURY;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BALLOON OCCLUSION; COMORBIDITY; CRYOSURGERY; DIAPHRAGM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHRENIC NERVE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84894545505     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2013.11.015     Document Type: Article

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