Relationship between intrinsic cardiac autonomic Ganglionated Plexi and the atrial fibrillation nest

Circulation Journal

Volumn 78, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 922-928

  Chang, Hung Yu ^a,c   Lo, Li Wei ^b,c   Lin, Yenn Jiang ^b,c   Lee, Shih Huang ^d   Chiou, Chuen Wang ^e   Chen, Shih Ann ^b,c  

^a CHENG HSIN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d SHIN KONG WU HO SU MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^e KAOHSIUNG VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Autonomic; Ganglionated plexus

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIAC MAPPING SYSTEM; CATHETER ABLATION; DOG; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; SPECTROSCOPY;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM;

EID: 84897854376     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-13-1053     Document Type: Article

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