Patient-specific surgical strategy for atrial fibrillation: Promises and challenges

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 1222-1224

  Schuessler, Richard B ^a   Damiano Jr , Ralph J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

activation sequence mapping; supraventricular tachycardia; Surgical treatment of AF; Wolff Parkinson White syndrome

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART SURGERY; HEART VALVE; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALIZATION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT SAFETY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 34548295745     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.04.011     Document Type: Article

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