Mechanistic approaches to detect, target, and ablate the drivers of atrial fibrillation

Circulation: Arrhythmia and Electrophysiology

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Quintanilla, Jorge G ^a,b   Pérez Villacastín, Julián ^b   Pérez Castellano, Nicasio ^b   Pandit, Sandeep V ^c   Berenfeld, Omer ^c   Jalife, José ^a,c   Filgueiras Rama, David ^a,b  

^a CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES CARDIOVASCULARES CNIC   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO SAN CARLOS   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation techniques; anatomic electrical activity; Atrial fibrillation; Body surface mapping; Catheter; Computer simulation; Optical mapping; Spectrum analysis

Indexed keywords

ABLATION THERAPY; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BASKET CATHETER ENDOCARDIAL OPTICAL MAPPING; BODY SURFACE MAPPING; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTRODE; ELECTROGRAPHY; ENDOCARDIAL OPTICAL MAPPING; ENDOCARDIUM; EPICARDIAL OPTICAL MAPPING; EPICARDIUM MAPPING; HUMAN; MAPPING CATHETER; PERSISTENT ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SPECTROSCOPY; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY VEIN;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 84961341988     PISSN: 19413149     EISSN: 19413084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCEP.115.002481     Document Type: Article

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