Long- and short-term temporal stability of complex fractionated atrial electrograms in human left atrium during atrial fibrillation

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 13-21

  Scherr, Daniel ^a,b   Dalal, Darshan ^a   Cheema, Aamir ^a   Nazarian, Saman ^a   Almasry, Ibrahim ^a   Bilchick, Kenneth ^a   Cheng, Alan ^a   Henrikson, Charles A ^a   Spragg, David ^a   Marine, Joseph E ^a   Berger, Ronald D ^a   Calkins, Hugh ^a   Dong, Jun ^a,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c CENTER FOR DEVICES AND RADIOLOGICAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Atrium; Complex atrial electrogram; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; DIAGNOSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 58149248070     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2008.01278.x     Document Type: Article

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