Conduction Patterns in the Cardiac Veins: Electrophysiologic Characteristics of the Connections between Left Atrial and Coronary Sinus Musculature

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 51-58

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a,d   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Karvouni, Evangelia ^a   Anagnostopoulos, Constantine E ^b   Camm, A John ^c  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d Athens Euroclinic   (Greece)

Author keywords

Atrial arrhythmias; Coronary sinus; Great cardiac vein

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM; SINUS VENOSUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FUNCTION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH, VASCULAR; VEINS;

EID: 1542379842     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JICE.0000011485.98197.df     Document Type: Article

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