Standardization of criteria used in automated algorithms for detection of fractionated electrograms to guide substrate-based ablation of atrial fibrillation: No rest for the wicked

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 1142-1143

  Ndrepepa, Gjin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EDITORIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STANDARDIZATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ENDOCARDIUM; HUMANS;

EID: 50949087683     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.05.017     Document Type: Editorial

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