Focal atrial fibrillation originating from the coronary sinus musculature

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1088-1091

  Yamada, Takumi ^a   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^b   Plumb, Vance J ^a   Kay, G Neal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham and Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center   (United States)

^b Aichi Prefectural Cardiovascular and Respiratory Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Coronary sinus musculature; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART PACING; HEART PALPITATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

ADULT; ARRHYTHMIA, SINUS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; SINUS OF VALSALVA;

EID: 33747866350     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.05.015     Document Type: Article

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