Impact of the distribution and structure of myocardium in the pulmonary veins for radiofrequency ablation of atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 1352-1356

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Gocht, Andreas ^a   Willems, Stephan ^a   Hoffmann, Matthias ^a   Risius, Tim ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; CALPONIN; CD57 ANTIGEN; DESMIN; KI 67 ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0036743169     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01352.x     Document Type: Article

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