Using intracardiac catheter recordings from the his and proximal coronary sinus to distinguish isthmus conduction block during catheter ablation of type I atrial flutter

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 4 I, 2000, Pages 516-521

  Sarter, Brian H ^a   Callans, David J ^a,b   Man, David C ^a   Coyne, Robert F ^a   Schwartzman, David ^a   Gottlieb, Charles D ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Catheter ablation; Coronary sinus; His bundle

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETER; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION DISTURBANCE; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE;

EID: 0034049186     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00837.x     Document Type: Article

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