Direct or coincidental elimination of stable rotors or focal sources may explain successful atrial fibrillation ablation: On-treatment analysis of the CONFIRM trial (Conventional Ablation for AF with or Without Focal Impulse and Rotor Modulation)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 138-147

  Narayan, Sanjiv M ^a,b,c   Krummen, David E ^a,b   Clopton, Paul ^b   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^c   Miller, John M ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

ablation; atrial fibrillation; FIRM; focal source; rotor; treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EVENT FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; LONG TERM CARE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; SURVIVAL RATE; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART VALVES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS; RECURRENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84879819175     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: 15583597     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2013.03.021     Document Type: Article

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