Effect of epicardial fat pad ablation on acute atrial electrical remodeling and inducibility of atrial fibrillation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 885-894

  Chang, Dong ^a   Zhang, Shulong ^a   Yang, Donghui ^a   Gao, Lianjun ^a   Lin, Yubi ^a   Chu, Zhenliang ^a   Jiang, Xiaoxiao ^a   Yin, Xiaomeng ^a   Zheng, Zhitao ^a   Wei, Xianjing ^a   You, Dejun ^a   Xiao, Xianjie ^a   Cong, Peixin ^a   Bian, Xiaoming ^a   Xia, Yunlong ^a   Yang, Yanzong ^a  

^a DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Acute atrial electrical remodeling; Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic nervous system; Denervation; Epicardial fat pad ablation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DOG; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; NONHUMAN; THERAPY EFFECT; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; DOGS; FEMALE; MALE; PERICARDIUM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77951742694     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-09-0967     Document Type: Article

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