On the Quest for the Best Freeze: Predictors of Late Pulmonary Vein Reconnections after Second-Generation Cryoballoon Ablation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1359-1365

  Ciconte, Giuseppe ^a   Mugnai, Giacomo ^a   Sieira, Juan ^a   Velagic, Vedran ^a   Saitoh, Yukio ^a   Irfan, Ghazala ^a   Hunuk, Burak ^a   Stroker, Erwin ^a   Conte, Giulio ^a   Di Giovanni, Giacomo ^a   Baltogiannis, Giannis ^a   Wauters, Kristel ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a   De Asmundis, Carlo ^a   Chierchia, Gian Battista ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; cryoballoon ablation; pulmonary vein isolation; pulmonary vein reconnection; second generation cryoballoon

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; APIXABAN; DABIGATRAN; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VALVE STENOSIS; HUMAN; INFORMED CONSENT; MALE; PREDICTION; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SECOND GENERATION CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; TACHYCARDIA; ADULT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HEART CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME FACTOR; TIME TO TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CRYOSURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TIME-TO-TREATMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84950116200     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.115.002966     Document Type: Article

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