Identifying the soloists in the orchestra of chronic atrial fibrillation: Spectral components of subsequent atrial tachycardias in the dominant frequency of atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 18-20

  Rostock, Thomas ^a   Willems, Stephan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HEART CENTER HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; EDITORIAL; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPECTROSCOPY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART RATE; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; TACHYCARDIA, ECTOPIC ATRIAL;

EID: 58049133981     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.10.015     Document Type: Editorial

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