Long-term clinical outcomes of focal impulse and rotor modulation for treatment of atrial fibrillation: A multicenter experience

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 636-641

  Buch, Eric ^a   Share, Michael ^a   Tung, Roderick ^a   Benharash, Peyman ^a   Sharma, Parikshit ^b   Koneru, Jayanthi ^b   Mandapati, Ravi ^a,c   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^b   Shivkumar, Kalyanam ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Arrhythmia; Atrial fibrillation; Catheterablation; Clinicalelectro physiology

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; APIXABAN; DABIGATRAN; RIVAROXABAN; WARFARIN;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOCAL IMPULSE AND ROTOR MODULATION; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MAPPING CATHETER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; TACHYCARDIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEART ATRIUM; HEART FUNCTION TEST; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84958914746     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2015.10.031     Document Type: Article

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