Direction-dependent conduction in lone atrial fibrillation

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1192-1199

  Wong, Christopher X ^a   Stiles, Martin K ^a   John, Bobby ^a   Brooks, Anthony G ^a   Lau, Dennis H ^a   Dimitri, Hany ^a   Kuklik, Pawel ^a   Shipp, Nicholas J ^a   Sullivan, Thomas ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia Atrial fibrillation; Atrial substrate; Direction dependence

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; BIATRIAL ACTIVATION TIME; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DIRECTION DEPENDENT HEART CONDUCTION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETER; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART CONDUCTION VELOCITY; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 77956212387     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.05.037     Document Type: Article

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