Slow potential-guided radiofrequency catheter ablation in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: Characteristics of the potential associated with successful ablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2631-2640

  Yamabe, Hiroshige ^a   Okumura, Ken ^b   Tsuchiya, Takeshi ^c   Tabuchi, Toshifumi ^c   Iwasa, Atsushi ^c   Yasue, Hirofumi ^c  

^a KUMAMOTO CITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KUMAMOTO UNIV SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Radiofrequency catheter ablation; Slow potential

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HIS BUNDLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032420886     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00040.x     Document Type: Article

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