Visually guided laser ablation: A single-centre long-term experience

Europace

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1746-1751

  Šedivá, Lucie ^a   Petrů, Jan ^a   Škoda, Jan ^a   Janotka, Marek ^a   Chovanec, Milan ^a   Reddy, Vivek ^b   Neužil, Petr ^a  

^a NA HOMOLCE HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Visually guided laser ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD VESSEL INJURY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONFUSION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LASER SURGERY; LEARNING CURVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NERVE INJURY; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUALLY GUIDED LASER ABLATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; ENDOSCOPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LASER THERAPY; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84925515688     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu168     Document Type: Article

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