Electrophysiological mechanisms and catheter ablation of complex atrial arrhythmias from crista terminalis: Insight from three-dimensional noncontact mapping

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1231-1239

  Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a   Tai, Ching Tai ^a   Liu, Tu Ying ^a   Higa, Satoshi ^a   Lee, Pi Chang ^a   Huang, Jin Long ^a   Yuniadi, Yoga ^a   Huang, Bien Hsien ^a   Lee, Kun Tai ^a   Lee, Shih Huang ^a   Ueng, Kuang Chang ^a   Hsieh, Ming Hsung ^a   Ding, Yu An ^a   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Crista terminalis; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; PROPAFENONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; EXTRASYSTOLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM TERMINAL CREST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 4644280773     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00614.x     Document Type: Article

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