Left atrial pressure and dominant frequency of atrial fibrillation in humans

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 181-187

  Yoshida, Kentaro ^a   Ulfarsson, Magnus ^b   Oral, Hakan ^a   Crawford, Thomas ^a   Good, Eric ^a   Jongnarangsin, Krit ^a   Bogun, Frank ^a   Pelosi, Frank ^a   Jalife, Jose ^c   Morady, Fred ^a   Chugh, Aman ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial pressure; Atrial stretch; Dominant frequency; Effective refractory period; Electrical remodeling

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART LEFT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PAROXYSMAL HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATRIAL APPENDAGE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TACHYCARDIA, PAROXYSMAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79251580667     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2010.10.030     Document Type: Article

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