Centrifugal gradients of rate and organization in human atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1366-1378

  Krummen, David E ^a   Peng, Kevin A ^a   Bullinga, John R ^a   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Fibrillatory conduction; Fourier analysis; Substrate mapping

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; ANGIOTENSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; DIPEPTIDYL CARBOXYPEPTIDASE INHIBITOR; DOFETILIDE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; SOTALOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; CORONARY SINUS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART FAILURE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PULMONARY VEIN; RECORDER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BIOLOGICAL CLOCKS; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 70350215901     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02525.x     Document Type: Article

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