Relationship between perimitral and peritricuspid conduction times

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 400-405

  Knecht, Sébastien ^a   Wright, Matthew ^a   Sacher, Frederic ^a   Lim, Kang Teng ^a   Matsuo, Seiichiro ^a   O'Neill, Mark D ^a   Hocini, Mélèze ^a   Jaïs, Pierre ^a   Clémenty, Jacques ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Cavotricuspid isthmus; Left mitral isthmus; Linear lesions

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART BLOCK; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; PULMONARY VEINS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 39649119477     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2007.11.025     Document Type: Article

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