International Journal of Clinical Medicine
Vol.5 No.19(2014), Paper ID 50371, 12
pages
DOI:10.4236/ijcm.2014.519149
Design and Baseline Patient Characteristics of the Prospective, Observational, Multicenter and Multinational Cohort Study Comparing Radiofrequency with Cryoablation for Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation—The Freeze Cohort Study
Ellen Hoffmann, Uwe Dorwarth, Karl Heinz Kuck, Jürgen Vogt, Malte Kuniss, Steffen Schneider, Jürgen Tebbenjohanns, Kyong Ryul Julian Chun, Dietrich Andresen, Stefan Spitzer, Thorsten Lewalter, Stephan Willems, Johannes Brachmann, Christoph Stellbrink, Bernhard Rauch, Jochen Senges
Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Bogenhausen, Munich, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Asklepios Klinik St. Georg, Hamburg, Germany
Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Kerckhoff Klinik, Bad Nauheim, Germany
Stiftung Institut für Herzinfarktforschung, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Klinikum Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
Center for Cardiology and Angiology Frankfurt, CCB, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Vivantes Klinikum am Urban, Berlin, Germany
Praxisklinik Herz und Gefäße, Dresden, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Isar Herzzentrum, Munich, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Universitäres Herzzentrum Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Coburg, Coburg, Coburg
Department of Cardiology, Klinikum Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Stiftung Institut für Herzinfarktforschung, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
Stiftung Institut für Herzinfarktforschung, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
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How to Cite this Article
Hoffmann, E. , Dorwarth, U. , Kuck, K. , Vogt, J. , Kuniss, M. , Schneider, S. , Tebbenjohanns, J. , Chun, K. , Andresen, D. , Spitzer, S. , Lewalter, T. , Willems, S. , Brachmann, J. , Stellbrink, C. , Rauch, B. and Senges, J. (2014) Design and Baseline Patient Characteristics of the Prospective, Observational, Multicenter and Multinational Cohort Study Comparing Radiofrequency with Cryoablation for Pulmonary Vein Isolation in Patients with Atrial Fibrillation—The Freeze Cohort Study.
International Journal of Clinical Medicine,
5, 1161-1172. doi:
10.4236/ijcm.2014.519149.