Spectral analysis during sinus rhythm predicts an abnormal atrial substrate in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 968-974

  Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a,b   Kao, Tsair ^b   Tai, Ching Tai ^a   Chang, Shih Lin ^a   Lo, Li Wei ^b   Tuan, Ta Chuan ^b   Udyavar, Ameya R ^b   Hu, Yu Feng ^b   Tso, Han Wen ^b   Higa, Satoshi ^c   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Electrogram; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SINUS RHYTHM; SPECTROSCOPY;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 46349099579     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.03.039     Document Type: Article

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