Response to adenosine differentiates focal from macroreentrant atrial tachycardia: Validation using three-dimensional electroanatomic mapping

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 22, 2002, Pages 2793-2799

  Iwai, Sei ^a   Markowitz, Steven M ^a   Stein, Kenneth M ^a   Mittal, Suneet ^a   Slotwiner, David J ^a   Das, Mithilesh K ^a   Cohen, Jennifer D ^a   Hao, Steven C ^a   Lerman, Bruce B ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Adenosine; Mapping; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADENOSINE; ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EBSTEIN'S ANOMALY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037180526     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000040587.73251.48     Document Type: Article

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