The Effect of a Residual Isthmus of Surviving Tissue on Conduction after Linear Ablation in Atrial Myocardium
- 1 January 2000
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology
- Vol. 4 (1) , 273-281
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1009838201448
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between the size of discontinuities in lines of ablation and wavefront propagation. Discontinuities in linear radiofrequency lesions used for...Keywords
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