Various Routes of Septal Propagation in Common Atrial Flutter

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 317-326

  Date, Taro ^a   Abe, Kunihiko ^a   Miyazaki, Hidekazu ^a   Yamane, Teiichi ^a   Sugimoto, Kenichi ^a   Mogi, Junichi ^a   Honda, Youichi ^a   Noma, Kenji ^a   Ishikawa, Shinichiro ^a   Mochizuki, Seibu ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial flutter; Coronary sinus ostium; Posterior isthmus propagation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; FLECAINIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY;

AGED; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 10744228910     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1027483124506     Document Type: Article

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