Transmural characteristics of atrial fibrillation in canine models of structural and electrical atrial remodeling assessed by simultaneous epicardial and endocardial mapping

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 506-517

  Everett IV, Thomas H ^a   Wilson, Emily E ^a   Hulley, George S ^a   Olgin, Jeffrey E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology; Fourier analysis; Mapping

Indexed keywords

METHACHOLINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL MAPPING; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM;

EID: 77949483237     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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