Linear left atrial lesions in minimally invasive surgical ablation of persistent atrial fibrillation: Techniques for assessing conduction block across surgical lesions

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 6, Issue 12 SUPPL., 2009, Pages

  Lockwood, Deborah ^a   Nakagawa, Hiroshi ^a   Peyton, Marvin D ^a   Edgerton, James R ^b   Scherlag, Benjamin J ^a   Sivaram, Chittur A ^a   Po, Sunny S ^a   Beckman, Karen J ^a   Abedin, Moeen ^a   Jackman, Warren M ^a  

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

^b The Heart Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Mapping; Minimally invasive surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; ELECTROGRAPHY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HUMAN; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; NERVE BLOCK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PULMONARY VEINS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 70649088023     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.09.010     Document Type: Article

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