Local electrogram assessment of unidirectional isthmus block is sufficient to predict the acute and long-term success of cavo-tricuspid isthmus ablation

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 263-269

  Scaglione, Marco ^a   Caponi, Domenico ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a   Maines, Massimiliano ^a   Di Donna, Paolo ^a   Bocchiardo, Mario ^a   Rossi, Paolo ^a   Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^a   Chierchia, Sergio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial flutter; Electrophysiology; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERATOR; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETER; HEART CONDUCTION; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRICUSPID VALVE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0036019185     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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