Functional nature of electrogram fractionation demonstrated by left atrial high-density mapping

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 32-42

  Jadidi, Amir S ^a   Duncan, Edward ^a   Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Lellouche, Nicolas ^b   Shah, Ashok J ^a   Forclaz, Andrei ^a   Nault, Isabelle ^a   Wright, Matthew ^a   Rivard, Lena ^a   Liu, Xingpeng ^a   Scherr, Daniel ^a   Wilton, Stephen B ^a   Sacher, Frédéric ^a   Derval, Nicolas ^a   Knecht, Sebastien ^a   Kim, Steven J ^c   Hocini, Mélèze ^a   Narayan, Sanjiv ^a   Haïssaguerre, Michel ^a   Jaïs, Pierre ^a  

^a HAUT LÉVÊQUE HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HENRI MONDOR HOSPITAL   (France)

^c St Jude Medical Inc USA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; CFAE; Fractionation; Paced rhythm; Sinus rhythm; Slow conduction; Wave collision

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; SINUS RHYTHM;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84863337719     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.111.964197     Document Type: Article

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