Nonpulmonary vein foci: Do they exist?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 7 II, 2003, Pages 1631-1635

  Shah, Dipen ^a   Haissaguerre, Michel ^b   Jais, Pierre ^b   Hocini, Meleze ^b  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037594881     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00243.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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