Single 3-minute freeze for second-generation cryoballoon ablation: One-year follow-up after pulmonary vein isolation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 673-680

  Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Sieira, Juan ^a   Conte, Giulio ^a   Di Giovanni, Giacomo ^a   Mugnai, Giacomo ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Baltogiannis, Giannis ^a   Irfan, Ghazala ^a   Coutiño Moreno, Hugo Enrique ^a   Hunuk, Burak ^a   Velagić, Vedran ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

1 yearfollow up; 3 minute freeze; Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; Pulmonaryveinisolation; Second generationcryoballoon; Singlefreeze

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIAL TACHYARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEMORAL PSEUDOANEURYSM; FOLLOW UP; FREEZE THAWING; GUIDING CATHETER; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE PARALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE PALSY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SINGLE 3 MINUTE FREEZE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925348374     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2014.12.026     Document Type: Article

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