Conduction recovery after electrical isolation of superior vena cava - Prevalence and electrophysiological properties

Circulation Journal

Volumn 77, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 352-358

  Miyazaki, Shinsuke ^a   Taniguchi, Hiroshi ^a   Kusa, Shigeki ^a   Uchiyama, Takashi ^a   Hirao, Kenzo ^b   Iesaka, Yoshito ^a  

^a TSUCHIURA KYODO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Catheter ablation; Isolation; Reconnection; Superior vena cava

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE FIBER MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN ISOLATION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC CATHETERIZATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY VEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REOPERATION; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR; VENTRICULAR PREMATURE COMPLEXES;

EID: 84873856805     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-12-0951     Document Type: Article

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