Noninvasive assessment of atrial substrate change after wide area circumferential ablation: A comparison with segmental pulmonary vein isolation

Annals of Noninvasive Electrocardiology

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 329-337

  Redfearn, Damian P ^a,d   Skanes, Allan C ^a   Gula, Lorne J ^a   Griffith, Michael J ^b   Marshall, Howard J ^b   Stafford, Peter J ^c   Krahn, Andrew D ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Klein, George J ^a  

^a LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b QUEEN ELIZABETH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c GLENFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^d KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Ablation, PVI, HRV; Atrial fibrillation; P wave; Signal averaging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSURGERY; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECORDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SINUS RHYTHM;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 35548929057     PISSN: 1082720X     EISSN: 1542474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1542-474X.2007.00182.x     Document Type: Article

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