Quantitative analysis of concealed conduction into accessory atrioventricular pathways in Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 5 I, 1997, Pages 1342-1353

  Tanaka, Kazushi ^a,b   Suzuki, Fumio ^a,c   Hiejima, Kazumasa ^a   Fujimura, Osamu ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

'probe' extrastimulus method; accessory atrioventricular pathway; concealed conduction; peeling back phenomenon; rate dependent conduction properties

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HUMAN; MALE; QUANTITATIVE DIAGNOSIS; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; WOLFF-PARKINSON-WHITE SYNDROME;

EID: 0030910903     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb06789.x     Document Type: Article

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