This work was supported in part by a Grant-inAid for Scientific Research from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan (no. 10470275; to Dr Sueda).
The main concepts of this work were presented at the 49th international congress of the European Society for Cardiovascular Surgery, Dresden, Germany, 2000.
Chronic atrial fibrillation
Electrophysiology
Fast Fourier transform analysis
Surgical ablation