Voltage mapping and pacing to assess the level of pulmonary venous isolation achieved with a novel circular multielectrode ablation catheter

Europace

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 933-940

  Raffa, Santi ^a,b   Große, Anett ^a   Brunelli, Michele ^a,c   Wauters, Kristel ^a   Geller, Johann Christoph ^a  

^a Division of Cardiology   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; New ablation catheters; Pulmonary vein isolation; Voltage mapping

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE; ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; MALE; OXIDATION REDUCTION POTENTIAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PACING; MIDDLE AGED; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954960861     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euq110     Document Type: Article

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