Radiofrequency catheter ablation of the anterosuperior and posteroinferior atrial approaches to the AV node for treatment of AV nodal reentrant tachycardia: Techniques for selective ablation of 'fast' and 'slow' AV node pathways

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 451-468

  Kottkamp, Hans ^a,b   Hindricks, Gerhard ^a   Borggrefe, Martin ^a   Breithardt, Günter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; catheter ablation; fast pathway; slow pathway

Indexed keywords

ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REVIEW; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0031000820     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.1997.tb00812.x     Document Type: Review

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