Lack of evidence of areas of slow conduction early after radiofrequency current application at porcine atrial myocardium

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages 2009-2013

  Paul, Thomas ^a   Mahnert, Britta ^a   Trappe, Hans J ^a   Maaß, Anne ^a   Bökenkamp, Regina ^a   Meyer, Petra ^b   Brückner, Reinhard ^b  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b Solvay Pharmaceuticals GmbH   (Germany)

Author keywords

action potential characteristics; atrial myocardial lesions; radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SWINE;

EID: 0029911287     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03271.x     Document Type: Article

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