Once Isolated, Always Isolated? Incidence and Characteristics of Pulmonary Vein Reconduction after Second-Generation Cryoballoon-Based Pulmonary Vein Isolation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1088-1094

  Heeger, Christian Hendrik ^a   Wissner, Erik ^a   Mathew, Shibu ^a   Deiss, Sebastian ^a   Lemes, Christine ^a   Rillig, Andreas ^a   Wohlmuth, Peter ^a   Reissmann, Bruno ^a   Tilz, Roland Richard ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; cryosurgery; pulmonary veins; recurrence; tachycardia, supraventricular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART CONDUCTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; GERMANY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84944677588     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.115.003007     Document Type: Article

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