Safety of transvenous atrial defibrillation: Studies in the canine sterile pericarditis model

Circulation

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1343-1350

  Sokoloski, Mary C ^b   Ayers, Gregory M ^a   Kumagai, Koichiro ^b   Khrestian, Celeen M ^b   Niwano, Shinichi ^b   Waldo, Albert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS OF CLEVELAND   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atrium; Defibrillation; Fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATION; DOG; ELECTRODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART CATHETER; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QT INTERVAL; R WAVE; SAFETY; T WAVE;

EID: 0030810775     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.96.4.1343     Document Type: Article

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