Left atrial voltage during atrial fibrillation in paroxysmal and persistent atrial fibrillation patients

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 541-548

  Fiala, Martin ^a   Wichterle, Dan ^b   ChovančÍk, Jan ^a   Bulková, Veronika ^a   Wojnarová, Dorota ^a   Nevřalová, Renáta ^a   Januška, Jaroslav ^a  

^a Hospital Podlesí a s   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Left atrium; Remodeling; Voltage; Volume

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROANATOMIC VOLTAGE MAPPING; ELECTRODIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLTAGE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART ATRIUM; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77951562637     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2009.02646.x     Document Type: Article

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