New insight into repolarization abnormalities in patients with Congenital Long QT Syndrome: The increased transmural dispersion of repolarization

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 1 II, 1998, Pages 172-175

  Lubinski, Andrzej ^a   Lewicka Nowak, Ewa ^a   Kempa, Maciej ^a   Baczynska, Anna M ^a   Romanowska, Ilona ^a   Swiatecka, Grazyna ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dispersion of repolarization; Long QT syndrome; Transmural dispersion of repolarization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HOLTER MONITORING; HUMAN; LONG QT SYNDROME; MALE; NIGHT SLEEP; T WAVE;

EID: 0031882029     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb01083.x     Document Type: Article

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