European experience of the convergent atrial fibrillation procedure: Multicenter outcomes in consecutive patients

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1411-1416

  Geršak, Borut ^a   Zembala, Michael O ^b   Müller, Dirk ^c   Folliguet, Thierry ^d   Jan, Matevz ^a   Kowalski, Oskar ^b   Erler, Stefan ^c   Bars, Clement ^d   Robic, Boris ^a   Filipiak, Krzysztof ^b   Wimmer Greinecker, Gerhard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^c Abteilung für Gefäßchirurgie Herz und Gefäßzentrum   (Germany)

^d INSTITUT MUTUALISTE MONTSOURIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABLATION DEVICE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CANNULA; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CARDIOVASCULAR ENDOSCOPE; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONVERSION TO OPEN SURGERY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RHYTHM; HEART TAMPONADE; HOLTER MONITOR; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE CARDIAC MONITOR; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DEVICE COMPLICATION; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE PARALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PLEURA EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SINUS RHYTHM; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL HOOK; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; EUROPE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896547176     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: 1097685X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2013.06.057     Document Type: Article

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