Catheter ablation of left atrial focal tachycardia guided by electroanatomic mapping and new insights into interatrial electrical conduction

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 578-591

  Dong, Jun ^a   Zrenner, Bernhard ^b   Schreieck, Jürgen ^b   Deisenhofer, Isabel ^b   Karch, Martin ^b   Schneider, Michael ^b   Von Bary, Christian ^b   Weyerbrock, Sonja ^b   Yin, Yuehui ^c   Schmitt, Claus ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c University of Medical Sciences   (China)

Author keywords

Atrium; Catheter ablation; Electrophysiology; Mapping; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 21144446867     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2005.03.014     Document Type: Article

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