Clinical experience with a novel multielectrode basket catheter in right atrial tachycardias

Circulation

Volumn 99, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2414-2422

  Schmitt, Claus ^a,b   Zrenner, Bernhard ^a   Schneider, Michael ^a   Karch, Martin ^a   Ndrepepa, Gjin ^a   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^a   Weyerbrock, Sonja ^a   Schreieck, Jürgen ^a   Schömig, Albert ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Catheters; Mapping; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0033545887     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.99.18.2414     Document Type: Article

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