Five-year efficacy of pulmonary vein antrum isolation as a primary ablation strategy for atrial fibrillation: A single-centre cohort study

Europace

Volumn 18, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1335-1342

  Teunissen, Cas ^a   Kassenberg, Wil ^a   Van Der Heijden, Jeroen F ^a   Hassink, Rutger J ^a   Van Driel, Vincent J H M ^a   Zuithoff, Nicolaas P A ^a   Doevendans, Pieter A ^a   Loh, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Long term outcome; Pulmonary vein antrum isolation

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ANAPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY MASS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE DURATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART INFARCTION; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THERAPY EFFECT; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASE; ACTION POTENTIAL; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE FREE SURVIVAL; HEART RATE; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; NETHERLANDS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; TIME FACTOR;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84992223455     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euv439     Document Type: Article

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