Best practice guide for cryoballoon ablation in atrial fibrillation: The compilation experience of more than 3000 procedures

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1658-1666

  Su, Wilber ^a   Kowal, Robert ^b   Kowalski, Marcin ^c   Metzner, Andreas ^d   Svinarich, J Thomas ^e   Wheelan, Kevin ^b   Wang, Paul ^f  

^a BANNER GOOD SAMARITAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e SCL Health   (United States)

^f STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Balloon; Cryoablation; Cryoballoon; Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; Phrenic nerve; Practice guidelines; Pulmonary vein isolation; Second generation cryoballoon

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BALLOON CATHETER; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; CONSENSUS; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS INJURY; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MAPPING CATHETER; PALPATION; PATIENT SAFETY; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; TEMPERATURE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC IMAGING TECHNIQUES; CATHETER ABLATION; CRYOSURGERY; HUMANS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84937523598     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.03.021     Document Type: Article

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