The Impact of Left Atrial Surface Area and the Second Generation Cryoballoon on Clinical Outcome of Atrial Fibrillation Cryoablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 815-824

  Greiß, Harald ^a   Berkowitsch, Alexander ^a   Wojcik, Maciej ^a   Zaltsberg, Sergej ^a   Pajitnev, Dimitri ^a   Deubner, Nikolas ^a   Akkaya, Ersan ^a   Güttler, Norbert ^a   Hamm, Christian ^a,b   Neumann, Thomas ^a   Kuniss, Malte ^a  

^a Kerckhoff Heart and Thorax Center   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL GIESSEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

ablation; arrhythmia; catheter ablation; cryoballoon; long term follow up; paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; pulmonary vein isolation; tachyarrhythmias

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84934439372     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/pace.12637     Document Type: Article

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