Are double potentials markers of a specific zone of the atrioventricular junction in the isolated rabbit heart?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 10 I, 1997, Pages 2385-2393

  Chorro, Francisco J ^a,b   Sanchis, Juan ^a   Such, Luis ^a   García Civera, Roberto ^a   Llavador, Esteban ^a   Llavador, Juan J ^a   Monmeneu, José V ^a   López Merino, Vicente ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular junction; Double potentials; Koch triangle

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART PACING; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RABBIT;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLES; RABBITS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 0030662519     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06075.x     Document Type: Article

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