Additional benefit of cryoballoon-based atrial fibrillation ablation beyond pulmonary vein isolation: Modification of ganglionated plexi

Europace

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 645-651

  Yorgun, Hikmet ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Canpolat, Uǧur ^b   Şahiner, Levent ^a   Kaya, Ergün Bariş ^a   Oto, Ali ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b TURKIYE YUKSEK IHTISAS HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoablation; Recurrence; Vagal reaction

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ATROPINE; MIDAZOLAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BALLOON CATHETER; BRADYCARDIA; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON TECHNIQUE; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GANGLIONATED PLEXUS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENCE RISK; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VAGUS REFLEX; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; GANGLIONECTOMY; INNERVATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTECTION; PULMONARY VEIN; SURGERY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BRADYCARDIA; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; GANGLIONECTOMY; HUMANS; HYPOTENSION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROTECTIVE FACTORS; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 84900322193     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eut240     Document Type: Article

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