Entrainment mapping in patients with sustained atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia: Insights Into the Sites of Conduction Slowing in the Slow Atrioventricular Nodal Pathway

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 80, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 883-888

  Haines, David E ^a   Nath, Sunil ^a   Dimarco, John P ^a   Lobban, John H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARRHYTHMOGENESIS; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 0030671037     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9149(97)00540-7     Document Type: Article

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