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Identification of pulmonary vein stenosis after radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation using MRI
1Department of Radiology, University of California-San Francisco, 94143-0628, USA.
Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography
|February 15, 2001
Abstract:
Pulmonary vein stenosis is one of the frequent complications after radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation. MRI plays an important role in depicting the pathoanatomic structure of the pulmonary veins, and measuring the blood flow velocity in the pulmonary veins before and after therapy, and is superior to transesophageal echocardiography for this purpose.