Dissociated activity and pulmonary vein fibrillation following functional disconnection: Impact for the arrhythmogenesis of focal atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1363-1370

  Willems, Stephan ^a   Weiss, Christian ^a   Risius, Tim ^a   Rostock, Thomas ^a   Hoffmann, Matthias ^a   Ventura, Rodolfo ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Endocardial mapping; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ORCIPRENALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DISSOCIATION; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART BEAT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INCIDENCE; ISOLATION PROCEDURE; MALE; NERVE BLOCK; NERVE CONDUCTION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PULMONARY VEIN;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0038120981     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00195.x     Document Type: Article

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