Assessing the excitable gap in reentry by resetting: Implications for tachycardia termination by premature stimuli and antiarrhythmic drugs

Circulation

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 1996, Pages 2268-2277

  Fei, Hailing ^b   Hanna, Michael S ^b   Frame, Lawrence H ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

electrophysiology; pacing; reentry; tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; DOG; HEART PACING; HEART STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REFRACTORY PERIOD; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0029845477     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.94.9.2268     Document Type: Article

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