Different patterns of atrial activation idiopathic atrial fibrillation: Simultaneous multisite atrial mapping in patients with paroxysmal and chronic atrial fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 534-541

  Gaita, Fiorenzo ^a   Calò, Leonardo ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a   Garberoglio, Lucia ^a   Scaglione, Marco ^a   Licciardello, Giovanni ^a   Coda, Luisella ^a   Di Donna, Paolo ^a   Bocchiardo, Mario ^a   Caponi, Domenico ^a   Antolini, Renzo ^b   Orzan, Fulvio ^c   Trevi, GianPaolo ^c  

^a Civil Hospital   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE WALL; HUMAN; MALE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL;

EID: 0035130959     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)01120-7     Document Type: Article

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