Ablation of atrial tachycardia after surgery for congenital and acquired heart disease using an electroanatomic mapping system: Which circuits to expect in which substrate?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 64-72

  Lukac, Peter ^a   Pedersen, Anders K ^a   Mortensen, Peter T ^a   Jensen, Henrik K ^a   Hjortdal, Vibeke ^a   Hansen, Peter S ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Atrial tachycardia; Catheter ablation; Reentry

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FALLOT TETRALOGY; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; GREAT VESSELS TRANSPOSITION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART SINGLE VENTRICLE; HEART SURGERY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; MUSTARD OPERATION; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 12144276155     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.10.034     Document Type: Article

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