A basket full of mechanistic insights into pulmonary vein arrhythmogenicity: Reentry, focal activity, or fibrillatory conduction!

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 39-40

  Willems, Stephan ^a   Rostock, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART AUTOMATICITY; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; TACHYCARDIA;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33845635724     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2006.00696.x     Document Type: Note

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