Behavior of atrial ectopic beats before and after pulmonary vein isolation in patients with atrial fibrillation: A reduction in the number and arrhythmogenicity of ectopic firings

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 3, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1421-1427

  Yamane, Teiichi ^a   Date, Taro ^a   Kanzaki, Yasuko ^a   Inada, Keiichi ^a   Matsuo, Seiichiro ^a   Shibayama, Kenri ^a   Miyanaga, Satoru ^a   Miyazaki, Hidekazu ^a   Sugimoto, Ken ichi ^a   Mochizuki, Seibu ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial premature beats; Catheter ablation; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMBULATORY MONITORING; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DISEASE DURATION; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL PREMATURE COMPLEXES; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; REOPERATION; RESEARCH DESIGN; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33845212443     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.08.023     Document Type: Article

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