Morphological evidence of muscular connections between contiguous pulmonary venous orifices: Relevance of the interpulmonary isthmus for catheter ablation in atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1192-1198

  Cabrera, José Angel ^a   Ho, Siew Yen ^b   Climent, Vicente ^c   Fuertes, Beatriz ^a   Murillo, Margarita ^c   Sánchez Quintana, Damián ^c  

^a HOSPITAL QUIRÓN   (Spain)

^b NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXTREMADURA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Atrium; Pulmonary veins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOCARDIUM; FATALITY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

ADULT; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CADAVER; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; PERICARDIUM; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 67650753425     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.04.016     Document Type: Article

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