Unipolar waveforms and monophasic action potentials in the characterization of slow conduction in human atrial flutter

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 12, 1998, Pages 2580-2587

  Fenelon, Guilherme ^a   Brugada, Pedro ^a,b  

^a Cardiovasc Res and Teach Inst   (Belgium)

^b Teaching Institute Aalst   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Atrial flutter; Mapping; Monophasic action potential; Unipolar electrograms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM; TRICUSPID VALVE; WAVEFORM;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADULT; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0032422654     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00034.x     Document Type: Article

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