Characteristics of complex fractionated atrial electrogram in the electroanatomically remodeled left atrium of patients with atrial fibrillation

Circulation Journal

Volumn 74, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1557-1563

  Park, Jae Hyung ^a   Park, Sang Weon ^a,b   Kim, Jong Youn ^a   Kim, Sook Kyoung ^a   Jeoung, Boyoung ^a   Lee, Moon Hyung ^a   Hwang, Chun ^a,c   Kim, Young Hoon ^a,b   Kim, Sung Soon ^a   Pak, Hui Nam ^a  

^a Yonsei University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Korea University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fbrillation; Computed tomography; Left atrium; Morphological remodeling; Voltage mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM HYPERTROPHY; HEART CYCLE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE REMODELING; HEART VOLUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77955071153     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0048     Document Type: Article

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