Favorable effect of pulmonic vein isolation by partial circumferential ablation on ostial flow velocity

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 262-267

  Dixit, Sanjay ^a,b   Ren, Jian Fang ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Zado, Erica ^a   Vanderhoff, Mark E ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a Hospital of the University   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Flow velocity; Pulmonic vein

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FLOW RATE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; PULMONARY VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REGIONAL BLOOD FLOW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 9244234412     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.04.007     Document Type: Article

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