Focal Atrial Tachycardia: New Insight from Noncontact Mapping and Catheter Ablation

Circulation

Volumn 109, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 84-91

  Higa, Satoshi ^a,b   Tai, Ching Tai ^a   Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a   Liu, Tu Ying ^a   Lee, Pi Chang ^a   Huang, Jin Long ^a   Hsieh, Ming Hsiung ^a   Yuniadi, Yoga ^a   Huang, Bien Hsien ^a   Lee, Shih Huang ^a   Ueng, Kwo Chang ^a   Ding, Yu An ^a   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,c  

^a TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Okinawa University   (Japan)

^c TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Mapping; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; NONCONTACT MAPPING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ADENOSINE; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL;

EID: 0347357878     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000109481.73788.2E     Document Type: Article

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