Atypical atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia with eccentric coronary sinus activation: Electrophysiological characteristics and essential effects of left-sided ablation inside the coronary sinus

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 421-432

  Otomo, Kiyoshi ^a   Nagata, Yasutoshi ^a   Uno, Kikuya ^a   Fujiwara, Hideomi ^a   Iesaka, Yoshito ^a  

^a TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Catheter ablation; Coronary sinus; Eccentric activation; Electrophysiology; Left variant; Slow pathway

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RESEARCH DESIGN; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 34247247655     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2006.12.035     Document Type: Article

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