Analysis of the mechanisms initiating random wave propagation at the onset of atrial fibrillation using noncontact mapping: Role of complex fractionated electrogram region

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1228-1236

  Yamabe, Hiroshige ^a   Morihisa, Kenji ^a   Koyama, Junjiroh ^a   Enomoto, Koji ^a   Kanazawa, Hisanori ^a   Ogawa, Hisao ^a  

^a KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology; Left atrium; Mapping; Pulmonary vein ablation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART CONDUCTION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 79960837127     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2011.02.032     Document Type: Article

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