Bonus-freeze: benefit or risk? Two-year outcome and procedural comparison of a “bonus-freeze” and “no bonus-freeze” protocol using the second-generation cryoballoon for pulmonary vein isolation

Clinical Research in Cardiology

Volumn 105, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 774-782

  Heeger, Christian H ^a   Wissner, Erik ^a   Wohlmuth, Peter ^a   Mathew, Shibu ^a   Hayashi, Kentaro ^a   Sohns, Christian ^a   Reißmann, Bruno ^a   Lemes, Christine ^a   Maurer, Tilman ^a   Saguner, Ardan M ^a   Santoro, Francesco ^a   Riedl, Johannes ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a   Metzner, Andreas ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon; Long term follow up; Pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; HEPARIN; MIDAZOLAM; PROPOFOL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSSEPTAL NEEDLE; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; AMBULATORY ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART CATHETER; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERS; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION EXPOSURE; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84963724508     PISSN: 18610684     EISSN: 18610692     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-016-0987-8     Document Type: Article

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