Characteristics and distribution of complex fractionated atrial electrograms and the dominant frequency during atrial fibrillation: Relationship to the response and outcome of circumferential pulmonary vein isolation

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 267-275

  Okumura, Yasuo ^a   Watanabe, Ichiro ^a   Kofune, Masayoshi ^a   Nagashima, Koichi ^a   Sonoda, Kazumasa ^a   Mano, Hiroaki ^a   Ohkubo, Kimie ^a   Nakai, Toshiko ^a   Hirayama, Atsushi ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Circumferential pulmonary vein isolation; Complex fractionated atrial electrogram; Dominant frequency

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ELECTROGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY VEINS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84864675782     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: 15728595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10840-011-9637-2     Document Type: Article

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