S-wave predominance of epicardial electrograms during atrial fibrillation in humans: Indirect evidence for a role of the thin subepicardial layer

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 639-647

  Houben, Richard P M ^b   de Groot, Natasja M S ^a   Smeets, Joep L R M ^a   Becker, Anton E ^c   Lindemans, Fred W ^b   Allessie, Maurits A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MEDTRONIC BAKKEN RESEARCH CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anisotropy; Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Conduction; Electrophysiology; Epicardium; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HISTOGRAM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECORDING; STUDENT T TEST;

ADULT; ANISOTROPY; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PERICARDIUM;

EID: 11144293639     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.08.015     Document Type: Article

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