Electrophysiological evaluation and ablation of atypical right atrial flutter

Cardiac Electrophysiology Review

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 365-370

  Shah, Dipen ^a   Jaïs, Pierre ^b   Haïssaguerre, Michael ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Ablation; Arrhythmia; Atrial fluttter; Cardiac electrophysiology; Congenital heart disease; Mapping; Supraventricular tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INCISION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; REVIEW; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, RIGHT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIALS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036961914     PISSN: 13852264     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021171922099     Document Type: Review

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