Typical atrial flutter ablation outcome: Correlation with isthmus anatomy using intracardiac echo 3D reconstruction

Europace

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 407-417

  Scaglione, Marco ^a   Caponi, Domenico ^a   Di Donna, Paolo ^a   Riccardi, Riccardo ^a   Bocchiardo, Mario ^a   Azzaro, Giuseppe ^a   Leuzzi, Stefano ^a   Gaita, Fiorenzo ^a  

^a Civil Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Intracardiac echocardiography; Isthmus anatomy; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CATHETER ABLATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TRICUSPID VALVE; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 4344569809     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eupc.2004.05.008     Document Type: Article

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