Induction of meandering functional reentrant wave front in isolated human atrial tissues

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 3013-3020

  Ikeda, Takanori ^b   Czer, Lawrence ^b   Trento, Alfredo ^b   Hwang, Chun ^b   Ong, James J C ^b   Hough, Dustan ^b   Fishbein, Michael C ^b   Mandel, William J ^b   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^b   Chen, Peng Sheng ^a  

^a CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Atrium; Electrophysiology; Fibrillation; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; WAVEFORM;

EID: 0030720305     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.96.9.3013     Document Type: Article

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