Autonomic modulation of complex fractionated atrial electrograms in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 217-223

  Katritsis, Demosthenes ^a   Sougiannis, Demetrios ^a   Batsikas, Kimon ^a   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Mersinias, John ^a   Katritsis, George ^b   Po, Sunny S ^c  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Electrogram fractionation; Ganglionated plexi; Parasympathetic system

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; GANGLION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HIGH FREQUENCY STIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PARASYMPATHETIC TONE; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATROPINE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASYMPATHOLYTICS; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 80053563670     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-011-9558-0     Document Type: Article

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