Atrial arrhythmias during chronic follow-up of surgery for complex congenital heart disease

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 2 II, 1997, Pages 502-511

  Kanter, Ronald J ^a   Garson Jr , Arthur ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial tachycardia; Fontan operation; Mustard operation; radiofrequency ablation; Senning operation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FOLLOW UP; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; MUSTARD OPERATION; RADIOFREQUENCY; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0031043085     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06207.x     Document Type: Article

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