Combined dominant frequency and complex fractionated atrial electrogram ablation after circumferential pulmonary vein isolation of atrial fibrillation

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 24, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 975-983

  Kumagai, Koji ^a   Sakamoto, Tamotsu ^a   Nakamura, Keijiro ^a   Nishiuchi, Suguru ^a   Hayano, Mamoru ^a   Hayashi, Tatsuya ^a   Sasaki, Takehito ^a   Aonuma, Kazutaka ^b   Oshima, Shigeru ^a  

^a GUNMA PREFECTURAL CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

atrial fibrillation; catheter ablation; complex fractionated atrial electrograms; dominant frequency; pulmonary vein isolation

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPLEX FRACTIONATED ATRIAL ELECTROGRAMS; DOMINANT FREQUENCY; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84883761638     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: 15408167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jce.12166     Document Type: Article

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