Organized incessant atrial arrhythmias in the setting of severe, isolated biatrial scarring

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 666-675

  Massumi, Ali ^a   Rasekh, Abdi ^a   Saeed, Mohammad ^a   Flam, Scott ^a   Cheong, Benjamin ^a   Mojibian, Hamid ^a   Razavi, Mehdi ^a,b  

^a ST LUKE S EPISCOPAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial arrhythmia; Cardiomyopathy; MRI

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR JUNCTION ARRHYTHMIA; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY SINUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ENLARGEMENT; HEART MUSCLE FIBROSIS; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SCAR FORMATION; TACHYCARDIA;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOMYOPATHIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; CICATRIX; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; SYNDROME;

EID: 44349133337     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2008.01069.x     Document Type: Article

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