Heterogeneity of Retrograde Fast-Pathway Conduction Pattern in Patients with Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry Tachycardia: Observations by Use of Simultaneous Multisite Catheter Mapping of Koch's Triangle

Circulation

Volumn 93, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 960-968

  Anselme, Frederic ^a   Hook, Bruce ^a   Monahan, Kevin ^a   Frederiks, Joost ^a   Callans, David ^a   Zardini, Marco ^a   Epstein, Laurence M ^a   Zebede, Joseph ^a   Josephson, Mark E ^a,b  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Reentry; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART DEPOLARIZATION; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, SINOATRIAL NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 0029939015     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.93.5.960     Document Type: Article

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