Complications in the setting of percutaneous atrial fibrillation ablation using radiofrequency and cryoballoon techniques: A single-center study in a large cohort of patients

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 196, Issue , 2015, Pages 42-49

  Mugnai, Giacomo ^a   Irfan, Ghazala ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Hunuk, Burak ^a   Velagic, Vedran ^a   Stroker, Erwin ^a   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Capulzini, Lucio ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Complications; Cryoballoon; Radiofrequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; ATRIAL ESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPRESSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ESOPHAGUS DISEASE; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; HEART TAMPONADE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDITIS; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PLEURAL HEMATOMA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN INTRAMURAL HEMATOMA; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VASCULAR DISEASE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CRYOSURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC TAMPONADE; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84937509797     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: 18741754     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2015.05.145     Document Type: Article

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