Patient-specific ablation strategy for atrial fibrillation: Promises and difficulties

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1094-1096

  Morady, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY SINUS; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 34547419788     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.04.009     Document Type: Article

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