Presence of left-to-right atrial frequency gradient in paroxysmal but not persistent atrial fibrillation in humans

Circulation

Volumn 110, Issue 20, 2004, Pages 3181-3186

  Lazar, Sorin ^a   Dixit, Sanjay ^a   Marchlinski, Francis E ^a   Callans, David J ^a   Gerstenfeld, Edward P ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrium; Fibrillation; Fourier analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; PATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VEIN; RECORDING;

ADRENERGIC BETA-AGONISTS; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORONARY VESSELS; FEMALE; FOURIER ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PULMONARY VEINS;

EID: 8744237183     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000147279.91094.5E     Document Type: Article

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