Catheter ablation using the third-generation cryoballoon provides an enhanced ability to assess time to pulmonary vein isolation facilitating the ablation strategy: Short- and long-term results of a multicenter study

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 13, Issue 12, 2016, Pages 2306-2313

  Aryana, Arash ^a   Kowalski, Marcin ^b   O'Neill, Padraig Gearoid ^a   Koo, Charles H ^c   Lim, Hae W ^d   Khan, Asif ^b   Hokanson, Robert B ^d   Bowers, Mark R ^a   Kenigsberg, David N ^e   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^f  

^a Mercy General Hospital   (United States)

^b STATEN ISLAND UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d MEDTRONIC INC   (United States)

^e Florida Heart Rhythm Specialists   (United States)

^f VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Cryoablation; Cryoballoon; Pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ANTICOAGULATION; ARCTIC FRONT ADVANCE SHORT TIP; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL OUTCOME; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOABLATION; DEVICE SAFETY; ESOPHAGUS FISTULA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; CRYOSURGERY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; PROCEDURES; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOSURGERY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RECURRENCE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85016428675     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2016.08.011     Document Type: Article

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