Extracardiac structures are frequently present within close proximity to the left atrium: Relevance to catheter ablation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1559-1564

  Takatsuki, Seiji ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a   Fukumoto, Kotaro ^a   Tanimoto, Kojiro ^a   Jinzaki, Masahiro ^a   Kuribayashi, Sachio ^a   Ogawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catheter ablation; Computed tomography; Coronary artery; Coronary sinus; Esophagus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANATOMY; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY; CORONARY SINUS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTROGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE; HUMAN; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE ANNULUS; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT CORONARY ARTERY;

AGED; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MITRAL VALVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 70350566700     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.07.049     Document Type: Article

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