Distinctive electrophysiological properties of pulmonary veins in patients with atrial fibrillation

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 19, 2002, Pages 2479-2485

  Jaïs, Pierre ^a   Hocini, Mélèze ^a   Macle, Laurent ^a   Choi, Kee Joon ^a   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^a   Weerasooriya, Rukshen ^a   Shah, Dipen C ^a   Garrigue, Stéphane ^a   Raybaud, Florence ^a   Scavee, Christophe ^a   Le Metayer, Philippe ^a   Clémenty, Jacques ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Fibrillation; Lung; Veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0037027479     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000036744.39782.9F     Document Type: Article

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