Mechanisms of the maintenance of atrial fibrillation: Role of the complex fractionated atrial electrogram assessed by noncontact mapping

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1120-1128

  Yamabe, Hiroshige ^a   Morihisa, Kenji ^a   Tanaka, Yasuaki ^a   Uemura, Takashi ^a   Enomoto, Koji ^a   Kawano, Hiroaki ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology; Left atrium; Mapping; Pulmonary vein

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; DIASTOLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 67650707975     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.04.021     Document Type: Article

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