Role of high dominant frequency sites in nonparoxysmal atrial fibrillation patients: Insights from high-density frequency and fractionation mapping

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1255-1262

  Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a,b   Tsao, Hsuan Ming ^b   Chang, Shih Lin ^a,b   Lo, Li Wei ^a,b   Hu, Yu Feng ^a,b   Chang, Chien Jung ^c   Tsai, Wen Chin ^d   Suenari, Kazuyoshi ^a   Huang, Shih Yu ^a   Chang, Hsing Ya ^e   Wu, Tsu Juey ^b,f   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c Tung's Taichung Metroharbour Hospital   (Taiwan)

^d TZU CHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^e Cardiology   (Taiwan)

^f TAICHUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Electrogram; Frequency analysis; Left atrium

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; CATHETER ABLATION; CLASSIFICATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ELECTROGRAPHY; DOMINANT FREQUENCY ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROANATOMIC MAPPING; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRACTIONATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SURVIVAL; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED;

EID: 77956193639     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.06.019     Document Type: Article

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