Left atrial coronary perfusion territories in isolated sheep hearts: Implications for atrial fibrillation maintenance

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1501-1508

  Yamazaki, Masatoshi ^a,b   Morgenstern, Sherry ^a   Klos, Matthew ^a   Campbell, Katherine ^a   Buerkel, Daniel ^a   Kalifa, Jèrôme ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial coronary artery; Atrial fibrillation; Chemical ablation; Coronary perfusion territory

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; CONGO RED; EVANS BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; ISOLATED HEART; LEFT CORONARY ARTERY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEEP;

ABLATION TECHNIQUES; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY CIRCULATION; CORONARY VESSELS; ETHANOL; HEART ATRIA; ISOTONIC SOLUTIONS; PULMONARY VEINS; SHEEP, DOMESTIC;

EID: 77957281162     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.06.036     Document Type: Article

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