Disparate Evolution of Right and Left Atrial Rate During Ablation of Long-Lasting Persistent Atrial Fibrillation

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 55, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1007-1016

  Hocini, Mélèze ^a   Nault, Isabelle ^a   Wright, Matthew ^a   Veenhuyzen, George ^a   Narayan, Sanjiv M ^a   Jaïs, Pierre ^a   Lim, Kang Teng ^a   Knecht, Sébastien ^a   Matsuo, Seiichiro ^a   Forclaz, Andrei ^a   Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Jadidi, Amir ^a   O'Neill, Mark D ^a   Sacher, Frédéric ^a   Clémenty, Jacques ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

ablation; arrhythmias; atrium; fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIAC PATIENT; CATHETER ABLATION; DISEASE COURSE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REOPERATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; STROKE VOLUME;

EID: 77349092072     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2009.09.060     Document Type: Article

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