Validation of a novel spiral mapping catheter for real-time recordings from the pulmonary veins during cryoballoon ablation of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 241-246

  Kühne, Michael ^a   Knecht, Sven ^a   Altmann, David ^a   Ammann, Peter ^b   Schaer, Beat ^a   Osswald, Stefan ^a   Sticherling, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoballoon ablation; Electroanatomic mapping; Pulmonary vein isolation; Real time recordings

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CRYOABLATION; CRYOBALLOON ABLATION; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FREEZING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; MIDDLE AGED; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; VASCULAR GUIDE WIRE; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART STROKE VOLUME; METHODOLOGY; MORTALITY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT MONITORING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VALIDATION STUDY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; COHORT STUDIES; CRYOSURGERY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STROKE VOLUME; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 85027945197     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2012.10.009     Document Type: Article

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