Permanent overdrive atrial pacing in the chronic management of recurrent postoperative atrial reentrant tachycardia in patients with complex congenital heart disease

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 20, Issue 12 I, 1997, Pages 2917-2923

  Ragonese, Pietro ^a   Drago, Fabrizio ^a   Guccione, Paolo ^a   Santilli, Antonella ^a   Silvetti, Massimo Stefano ^a   Agostino, Domenico Antonio ^a  

^a BAMBINO GESÙ CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Permanent atrial pacing; Postoperative atrial tachycardias

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE; DIGOXIN; FLECAINIDE; PROPAFENONE; QUINIDINE; SOTALOL; VERAPAMIL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTIARRHYTHMIC ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; FEMALE; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; MALE; MUSTARD OPERATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY, AMBULATORY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031449345     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1997.tb05460.x     Document Type: Article

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