Comparison of pulmonary vein isolation using cryoballoon versus conventional radiofrequency for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 113, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1509-1513

  Mugnai, Giacomo ^a,b   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Sieira Moret, Juan ^a   Conte, Giulio ^a   Capulzini, Lucio ^a   Wauters, Kristel ^a   Rodriguez Mañero, Moises ^a   Di Giovanni, Giacomo ^a   Baltogiannis, Giannis ^a   Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Juliá, Justo ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR REENTRANT TACHYCARDIA; BODY MASS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPLETE HEART BLOCK; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY PSEUDOANEURYSM; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; GLIOBLASTOMA; GROIN HEMATOMA; GUIDING CATHETER; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACRANIAL HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; NERVE PARALYSIS; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION DEVICE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEPSIS; SINUS ARREST; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; TACHYCARDIA; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OPERATIVE TIME; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84898618341     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: 18791913     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2014.01.425     Document Type: Article

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