Effect of Left Atrial-Coronary Sinus Musculature Connections on the Coronary Sinus Activation Pattern via Retrograde Conduction in Patients with WPW Syndrome

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 59-64

  Uchida, Fumiya ^a,c   Fujii, Eitaro ^a   Matsuoka, Koji ^a   Okubo, Setsuya ^a   Kasai, Atsunobu ^b   Omichi, Chikaya ^b   Nakano, Takeshi ^b  

^a Matsusaka Chuo Hospital   (Japan)

^b MIE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c Matsusaka City Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology; Pacing; Wolff Parkinson White syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; VEINS; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 1542350205     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JICE.0000011486.06234.50     Document Type: Article

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