Importance of retrograde atrial activation in atrial fibrillation genesis in the initiation of atrial fibrillation in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome. Comparison of atrial electrophysiologic parameters between patients with different atrial fibrillation genesis (initiation sites) in atria

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 281-293

  Niwano, Shinichi ^a   Yamaura, Masayuki ^b   Kitano, Yoshikazu ^a   Moriguchi, Masahiko ^a   Yoshizawa, Naoto ^a   Aizawa, Yoshifusa ^b   Izumi, Tohru ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Accessory pathway; Anisotropic conduction; Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiologic study

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR PREMATURE BEAT; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFRACTORY PERIOD, ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0033054739     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.40.281     Document Type: Article

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