Role of the Posterior Left Atrium and Pulmonary Veins in Human Lone Atrial Fibrillation: Electrophysiological and Pathological Data from Patients Undergoing Atrial Fibrillation Surgery

Circulation

Volumn 108, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 3108-3114

  Todd, Derick M ^a   Skanes, Allan C ^a,b   Guiraudon, Gerard ^b   Guiraudon, Colette ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Klein, George J ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Canadian Surgical Technologies and Advanced Robotics CSTAR   (Canada)

^c LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Fibrillation; Pathology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART STIMULATION; HEART SURGERY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 0242421673     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000104567.72914.BF     Document Type: Article

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