Nonlinear ablation targeting an isthmus of critically slow conduction detected by high-density electroanatomical mapping for atypical atrial flutter

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 11 II, 2000, Pages 1911-1915

  Iesaka, Yoshito ^a   Takahashi, Atsushi ^a   Goya, Masahiko ^a   Fujiwara, Hideomi ^a   Nitta, Junichi ^b   Nogami, Akihiko ^b   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^b   Hiroe, Michiaki ^b   Marumo, Fumiaki ^b   Hiraoka, Masayasu ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atypical atrial flutter; Electroanatomical mapping; Figure 8 reentry; Isthmus of slow conduction; Macroreentrant atrial tachycardia; Nonlinear catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CYCLE; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0033675584     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb07051.x     Document Type: Article

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