Radiofrequency ablation of 'Class IC atrial flutter' in patients with resistant atrial fibrillation

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 83, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 785-787

  Nabar, Ashish ^a   Rodriguez, Luz Maria ^a   Timmermans, Carl ^a   Smeets, Joep L R M ^a   Wellens, Hein J J ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ATENOLOL; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDICATION; DRUG MECHANISM; EBSTEIN ANOMALY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFRACTORY PERIOD; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLECAINIDE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPAFENONE; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033104196     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(98)00992-8     Document Type: Article

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