A Randomized Assessment of the Incremental Role of Ablation of Complex Fractionated Atrial Electrograms After Antral Pulmonary Vein Isolation for Long-Lasting Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 53, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 782-789

  Oral, Hakan ^a   Chugh, Aman ^a   Yoshida, Kentaro ^a   Sarrazin, Jean F ^a   Kuhne, Michael ^a   Crawford, Thomas ^a   Chalfoun, Nagib ^a   Wells, Darryl ^a   Boonyapisit, Warangkna ^a   Veerareddy, Srikar ^a   Billakanty, Sreedhar ^a   Wong, Wai S ^a   Good, Eric ^a   Jongnarangsin, Krit ^a   Pelosi Jr , Frank ^a   Bogun, Frank ^a   Morady, Fred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; electrogram

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REOPERATION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60449096782     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2008.10.054     Document Type: Article

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