Factors predicting success in cryoablation of the pulmonary veins in patients with chronic atrial fibrillation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 68, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 999-1003

  Isobe, Naoki ^a   Taniguchi, Koichi ^a   Oshima, Shigeru ^a   Kamiyama, Hiroshi ^b   Ezure, Masahiko ^a   Kaneko, Tatsuo ^a   Tada, Hiroshi ^a   Adachi, Hitoshi ^a   Toyama, Takuji ^a   Naito, Shigeto ^a   Hoshizaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b Isesaki Sawa Med Assoc Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cryoablation; Left atrial appendage outflow velocity; Left atrial dimension; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CRYOSURGERY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM APPENDAGE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PULMONARY VEIN; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

AGED; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CRYOSURGERY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY VEINS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9144230720     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.68.999     Document Type: Article

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