Thoracic veins and the mechanisms of non-paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Cardiovascular Research

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 295-301

  Chen, Peng Sheng ^a,e   Wu, Tsu Juey ^b   Hwang, Chun ^c   Zhou, Shengmei ^a   Okuyama, Yuji ^a   Hamabe, Akira ^a   Miyauchi, Yasushi ^a   Chang, Che Ming ^a   Chen, Lan S ^d   Fishbein, Michael C ^a   Karagueuzian, Hrayr S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c UTAH VALLEY REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CSMC   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Adrenergic (ant)agonists; Arrhythmia (mechanisms); Mapping; Pulmonary circulation

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; AZYGOS VEIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM MUSCLE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MUSCLE ACTION POTENTIAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REVIEW; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR SMOOTH MUSCLE; VENOCONSTRICTION;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AZYGOS VEIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY VEINS; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0036221552     PISSN: 00086363     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0008-6363(01)00554-5     Document Type: Review

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