Simultaneous multisite mapping studies during induced atrial fibrillation in the sterile pericarditis model: Insights into the mechanism of its maintenance

Circulation

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 511-521

  Kumagai, Koichiro ^a   Khrestian, Celeen ^a   Waldo, Albert L ^a,b  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

Author keywords

arrhythmia; mapping; reentry

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DOG; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; NONHUMAN; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

EID: 0031037095     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.95.2.511     Document Type: Article

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