Learning curve in cryoballoon ablation of atrial fibrillation - Eight-year experience

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1612-1618

  Wójcik, Maciej ^a,c   Berkowitsch, Alexander ^a   Greis, Harald ^a   Zaltsberg, Sergey ^a   Hamm, Christian W ^a,b   Pitschner, Heinz F ^a   Kuniss, Malte ^a   Neumann, Thomas ^a,b  

^a Department of Cardiology Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center ^*  (Germany)

^b JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; Learning curve

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DEVICE SAFETY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METABOLIC SYNDROME X; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84903202280     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-1253     Document Type: Article

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