Atrial tachycardia originating from the noncoronary aortic cusp and musculature connection with the atria: Relevance for catheter ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1494-1496

  Yamada, Takumi ^a   Huizar, Jose F ^a   McElderry, Hugh T ^a   Kay, G Neal ^a  

^a University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial tachycardia; Noncoronary cusp; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA MEDIA; AORTA VALVE; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CASE REPORT; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART PALPITATION; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PWAVE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

AGED; BUNDLE OF HIS; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART SEPTUM; HUMANS; MALE; SINUS OF VALSALVA; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845207924     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.08.026     Document Type: Article

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