Use of noncontact mapping and saline-cooled ablation catheter for sinus node modification in medically refractory inappropriate sinus tachycardia

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 236-242

  Lin, David ^a,b   Garcia, Fermin ^a   Jacobson, Jason ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Verdino, Ralph ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Clinical electrophysiology; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE; HEPARIN; ISOPRENALINE; PROPRANOLOL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRADYCARDIA; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COURSE EVALUATION; DRUG DOSE INCREASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY MONITORING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM PACEMAKER; HEART RATE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NERVE BLOCK; P WAVE; PATIENT REFERRAL; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS NODE; SINUS TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHERMIA, INDUCED; SINOATRIAL NODE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TACHYCARDIA, SINUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33847391215     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00655.x     Document Type: Article

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