Complex fractionated atrial electrograms at anatomic sites of ganglionated plexi in atrial fibrillation

Europace

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 308-315

  Katritsis, Demosthenes ^a   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Sougiannis, Demetrios ^a   Voridis, Eutychios ^a   Po, Sunny S ^b  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrogram fractionation; Ganglionated plexi

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; GANGLION CYSTS; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 61649111761     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/eup036     Document Type: Article

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