Factors associated with periesophageal vagal nerve injury after pulmonary vein antrum isolation

Journal of the American Heart Association

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Kusa, Shigeki ^a   Komatsu, Yuki ^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

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Collateral damage; Complication; Periesophageal vagal nerve injury; Pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FEMALE; GASTRIC HYPOMOTILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIESOPHAGEAL VAGAL NERVE INJURY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; STOMACH FUNCTION DISORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE INJURY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FOLLOW UP; INJURIES; INNERVATION; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; VAGUS NERVE INJURIES;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VAGUS NERVE INJURIES;

EID: 84930751923     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20479980     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/JAHA.114.001209     Document Type: Article

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