Ostial PV isolation: Is there a role for three-dimensional mapping?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7 II, 2003, Pages 1624-1630

  Ernst, Sabine ^a   Antz, Matthias ^a   Ouyang, Feifan ^a   Vogtmann, Thomas ^a   Goya, Masahiko ^a   Bänsch, Dietmar ^a   Schaumann, Anselm ^a   Kuck, Karl Heinz ^a,b  

^a Allgemeines Krankenhaus Eilbek   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF CARDIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CURRENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; RECURRENT DISEASE; RELAPSE; SINUS RHYTHM; SPIKE WAVE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037594878     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00242.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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