Simple and accurate catheter mapping technique to predict atrial fibrillation foci in the pulmonary veins or posterior right atrium

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 427-434

  Yamada, Takumi ^a   Murakami, Yoshimasa ^a   Muto, Masahiro ^a   Okada, Taro ^a   Okamoto, Mitsuhiro ^a   Shimizu, Takeshi ^a   Toyama, Junji ^a   Yoshida, Yukihiko ^b   Tsuboi, Naoya ^b   Ito, Teruo ^b   Kondo, Takahisa ^c   Inden, Yasuya ^c   Hirai, Makoto ^c   Murohara, Toyoaki ^c  

^a Aichi Prefectural Owari Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA DAINI RED CROSS HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c NAGOYA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Double potential; Esophageal potential; Posterior right atrium; Radiofrequency catheter ablation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 7744224981     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.06.015     Document Type: Article

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