Transesophageal echo phase imaging for localizing accessory pathways during adenosine-induced preexcitation in patients with the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 64-71

  Kuecherer, Helmut F ^a   Kleber, Gaspar Da Silva ^a   Melichercik, Juraj ^a   Schützendübel, Rudolph ^a   Beyer, Thorsten ^a   Brachmann, Johannes ^a   Kübler, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART PREEXCITATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TECHNIQUE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADENOSINE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030065636     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)89136-9     Document Type: Article

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