Is vagal innervation to the atrioventricular node impaired after radiofrequency ablation of the slow atrioventricular nodal pathway?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 19, Issue 11 II, 1996, Pages 1993-1997

  Kautzner, Josef ^a,b   Hartikainen, Juha ^a   Heald, Spencer ^a   Malik, Marek ^a   Ward, David ^a   Rowland, Edward ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

AV conduction; AV node reentrant tachycardia; radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART INNERVATION; HUMAN; RADIOFREQUENCY; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 0029859249     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1996.tb03268.x     Document Type: Article

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