Electrical disconnection of an arrhythmogenic superior vena cava with discrete radiofrequency current lesions guided by noncontact mapping

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 1758-1761

  Weiss, Christian ^a   Willems, Stephan ^a   Rostock, Thomas ^a   Risius, Tim ^a   Ventura, Rodolpho ^a   Meinertz, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Superior vena cava

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; SOTALOL;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE COURSE; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0042700322     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.t01-1-00263.x     Document Type: Article

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