Prevalence and clinical outcome of phrenic nerve injury during superior vena cava isolation and circumferential pulmonary vein antrum isolation using radiofrequency energy

American Heart Journal

Volumn 168, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 846-853

  Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Usui, Eisuke ^a   Kusa, Shigeki ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Ichihara, Noboru ^a   Takagi, Takamitsu ^a   Iwasawa, Jin ^a   Kuroi, Akio ^a   Nakamura, Hiroaki ^a   Hachiya, Hitoshi ^a   Hirao, Kenzo ^b   Iesaka, Yoshito ^a  

^a TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CIRCUMFERENTIAL PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; DIAPHRAGM MOVEMENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART PACING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT MONITORING; PHRENIC NERVE INJURY; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PREVALENCE; RADIOFREQUENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR VENA CAVA ISOLATION; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CONVALESCENCE; DIAPHRAGM; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHRENIC NERVE; PHYSIOLOGIC MONITORING; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGERY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAPHRAGM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PHRENIC NERVE; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 84912520347     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ahj.2014.09.011     Document Type: Article

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