Comparison of 2 mapping strategies for pulmonary vein isolation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1496-1502

  Kumagai, Koichiro ^a   Ogawa, Masahiro ^a   Noguchi, Hiroo ^a   Nakashima, Hideko ^a   Zhang, Bo ^a   Miura, Shin Ichiro ^a   Saku, Keijiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrium; Catheter ablation; Fibrillation; Veins

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CATHETERIZATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; METHODS; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 28544452513     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.69.1496     Document Type: Article

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