Focal impulse and rotor modulation: Acute procedural observations and extended clinical follow-up

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 192-197

  Steinberg, Jonathan S ^a,b   Shah, Yash ^c   Bhatt, Advay ^c   Sichrovsky, Tina ^c   Arshad, Aysha ^c   Hansinger, Emily ^c   Musat, Dan ^c  

^a Summit Medical Group   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

^c VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Ablation; Atrial fibrillation; Focal impulse and rotor modulation; Mapping; Rotors

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ABLATION THERAPY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; FOCAL IMPULSE AND ROTOR MODULATION; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAROXYSMAL ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN ISOLATION; RADIOFREQUENCY ABLATION; RADIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; SINUS RHYTHM; SOFTWARE; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED SURGERY; DEVICES; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LONG TERM ADVERSE EFFECTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; SURGERY, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 85009402295     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: 15563871     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2016.11.008     Document Type: Article

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