Focal atrial tachycardia II: Management

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 29, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 769-778

  Roberts Thomson, Kurt C ^b   Kistler, Peter M ^b   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Focal atrial; Radiofrequency ablation; Tachycardia; Therapy

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; CALCIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; DIGOXIN; ENCAINIDE; FLECAINIDE; PROCAINAMIDE; PROPRANOLOL; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

ANESTHESIA; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CAROTID SINUS MASSAGE; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG CLASSIFICATION; DRUG EFFICACY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIAL ACTIVATION MAPPING; FOCAL ATRIAL TACHYCARDIA; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART SURGERY; HEART TAMPONADE; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LONG TERM CARE; MITRAL VALVE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; P WAVE; PACED ENDOCARDIAL ACTIVATION SEQUENCE MAPPING; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PREDICTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN OBSTRUCTION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SINUS NODE DYSFUNCTION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 33745966486     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2006.00433.x     Document Type: Review

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