Catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation guided by complex fractionated atrial electrogram mapping with or without pulmonary vein isolation

Journal of Arrhythmia

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 311-323

  Oketani, Naoya ^a   Ichiki, Hitoshi ^a   Iriki, Yasuhisa ^a   Okui, Hideki ^a   Maenosono, Ryuichi ^a,b   Namino, Fuminori ^b   Ninomiya, Yuichi ^a   Ishida, Sanemasa ^a   Hamasaki, Shuichi ^a   Tei, Chuwa ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; CFAE

Indexed keywords

EID: 84870394652     PISSN: 18804276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.joa.2012.05.011     Document Type: Review

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