Cryoballoon versus open irrigated radiofrequency ablation in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 132, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 1311-1319

  Luik, Armin ^a   Radzewitz, Andrea ^a   Kieser, Meinhard ^b   Walter, Marlene ^a   Bramlage, Peter ^c   Hörmann, Patrick ^a   Schmidt, Kerstin ^a   Horn, Nicolas ^a   Brinkmeier Theofanopoulou, Maria ^a   Kunzmann, Kevin ^b   Riexinger, Tobias ^a   Schymik, Gerhard ^a   Merkel, Matthias ^a   Schmitt, Claus ^a  

^a STÄDTISCHES KLINIKUM KARLSRUHE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c Institute for Pharmacology and Preventive Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

arrhythmias, cardiac; atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANGIOTENSIN 1 RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; APIXABAN; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DABIGATRAN; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DIURETIC AGENT; HEPARIN; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; PHENPROCOUMON; RIVAROXABAN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CARDIAC PATIENT; CATHETER SHEATH; CHADS2 SCORE; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COMPRESSION THERAPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPEN IRRIGATED RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SURGICAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR STENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETER ABLATION; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; DIABETES MELLITUS; INJURIES; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; THROMBOPHILIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADRENERGIC BETA-ANTAGONISTS; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COMORBIDITY; CRYOSURGERY; DIABETES MELLITUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAMPLE SIZE; THROMBOPHILIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84943414914     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.115.016871     Document Type: Article

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