Successful catheter ablation and documentation of the activation and propagation pattern during a left atrial focal tachycardia in a patient with cor triatriatum sinister

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1050-1054

  Ejima, Koichiro ^a   Shoda, Morio ^a   Manaka, Tetsuyuki ^a   Hagiwara, Nobuhisa ^a  

^a TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

atrial tachycardia; CARTO; catheter ablation; cor triatriatum; electroanatomical mapping

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE; VERAPAMIL;

ACCESSORY CHAMBER; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; COR TRIATRIATUM; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROANATOMICAL MAPPING; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; INTRACARDIAC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LEFT ATRIAL FOCAL TACHYCARDIA; MALE; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; P WAVE; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOFREQUENCY RADIATION; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CATHETER ABLATION; COR TRIATRIATUM; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956326073     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2010.01749.x     Document Type: Article

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