Evaluation of the cavotricuspid isthmus and right atrium by multidetector-row computed tomography in patients with common atrial flutter

Heart and Vessels

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 264-270

  Komatsu, Sei ^a   Okuyama, Yuji ^a   Omori, Yosuke ^a   Oka, Takafumi ^a   Mizuno, Hiroya ^b   Honda, Takashi ^a   Fujisawa, Yasuo ^a   Kiyomoto, Masayoshi ^a   Koshimune, Yutaka ^a   Higashide, Toshiaki ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a   Kodama, Kazuhisa ^a  

^a OSAKA POLICE HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Catheter ablation; Cavotricuspid isthmus; Multidetector row computed tomography

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MORPHOMETRICS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IOHEXOL; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PROGNOSIS; RECURRENCE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 29544448368     PISSN: 09108327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00380-005-0847-3     Document Type: Article

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