Cardiac mapping: Utility or futility?

Indian Pacing and Electrophysiology Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 20-32

  Gupta, Anoop Kumar ^a   Maheshwari, Alok ^a   Thakur, Ranjan ^a   Lokhandwala, Yash Y ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER SYSTEM; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; QUALITY OF LIFE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 3242665087     PISSN: 09726292     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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