Temporal stability of rotors and atrial activation patterns in persistent human atrial fibrillation: A high-density epicardial mapping study of prolonged recordings

JACC: Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 1, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 14-24

  Walters, Tomos E ^a,b   Lee, Geoffrey ^a,b   Morris, Gwilym ^a   Spence, Steven ^a   Larobina, Marco ^a   Atkinson, Victoria ^a   Antippa, Phillip ^a   Goldblatt, John ^a   Royse, Alistair ^a,b   O'Keefe, Michael ^a   Sanders, Prashanthan ^c   Morton, Joseph B ^a,b   Kistler, Peter M ^b,d   Kalman, Jonathan M ^a,b  

^a ROYAL MELBOURNE HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

cycle length; epicardial mapping; rotor

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TIME;

EID: 84942913746     PISSN: 2405500X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jacep.2015.02.012     Document Type: Article

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