Contact force mapping and voltage thresholds during high-frequency stimulation of human cardiac ganglionated plexuses

Europace

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 552-558

  Lemery, Robert ^a   Cleland, Mark ^a   Bernick, Jordan ^a   Wells, George A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Autonomics; Catheter ablation; Contact force

Indexed keywords

ABLATION CATHETER; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC INNERVATION; BLOOD PRESSURE; BRADYCARDIA; CARDIAC GANGLIONATED PLEXUS; CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSCIOUS SEDATION; CONTACT FORCE MAPPING; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ENDOCARDIUM; FEMALE; FORCE; GANGLION; HEART ARREST; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INNERVATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RATE; HIGH FREQUENCY STIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NERVE STIMULATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; AUTONOMIC GANGLION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT MONITORING; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL MAPPING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; GANGLIA, AUTONOMIC; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, INTRAOPERATIVE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 84926664019     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: 15322092     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euu336     Document Type: Article

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