Pulmonary veins and ligament of Marshall as sources of rapid activations in a canine model of sustained atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1157-1163

  Wu, Tsu Juey ^a   Ong, James J C ^b   Chang, Che Ming ^b   Doshi, Rahul N ^b   Yashima, Masaaki ^b   Huang, Hsun Lun A ^b   Fishbein, Michael C ^b   Ting, Chih Tai ^a   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^b   Chen, Peng Sheng ^b  

^a TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Fibrillation; Mapping; Pacing; Pathology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE GRADIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

EID: 0035957046     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.103.8.1157     Document Type: Article

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