Role of right atrial endocardial structures as barriers to conduction during human type I atrial flutter: Activation and entrainment mapping guided by intracardiac echocardiography

Circulation

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 1995, Pages 1839-1848

  Olgin, Jeffrey E ^a   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a   Fitzpatrick, Adam P ^a   Lesh, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

conduction; echocardiography; mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0029132742     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.92.7.1839     Document Type: Article

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