Low Rates of Major Complications for Radiofrequency Ablation of Atrial Fibrillation Maintained Over 14 Years: A Single Centre Experience of 2750 Consecutive Cases

Heart Lung and Circulation

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2018, Pages 976-983

  Voskoboinik, Aleksandr ^a   Sparks, Paul B ^a,b   Morton, Joseph B ^a,b   Lee, Geoffrey ^a,b   Joseph, Stephen A ^a   Hawson, Joshua J ^a   Kistler, Peter M ^a,b   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Cardiac tamponade; Complications; Radiofrequency energy

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; AORTOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS HEMORRHAGE; ESOPHAGUS PERFORATION; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HEART TAMPONADE; HUMAN; HYPOTONIC BLADDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDITIS; PHARYNX DISEASE; PHRENIC NERVE PARALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; PULMONARY VEIN STENOSIS; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REOPERATION; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; STOMACH INJURY; STOMACH PARESIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK; URETHRA STENOSIS; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FORECASTING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TRENDS; VICTORIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORECASTING; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SURVIVAL RATE; VICTORIA;

EID: 85042912411     PISSN: 14439506     EISSN: 14442892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hlc.2018.01.002     Document Type: Article

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