Single 3-Minute versus Double 4-Minute Freeze Strategy for Second-Generation Cryoballoon Ablation: A Single-Center Experience

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 796-803

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

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

Author keywords

cryoballoon ablation; paroxysmal atrial fibrillation; phrenic nerve injury; pulmonary vein isolation; second generation cryoballoon; single freeze

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION DEVICE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BALLOON; CATHETER SHEATH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; DOUBLE FOUR MINUTE FREEZE THAWING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FLUOROSCOPY TIME; FOLLOW UP; FREEZE THAWING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SINGLE THREE MINUTE FREEZE THAWING; THERAPY EFFECT; TIME;

EID: 84978916755     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jce.12986     Document Type: Article

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