Spontaneous reinitiation of atrial fibrillation following transvenous atrial defibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 21, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1105-1110

  Sra, Jasbir ^a,b   Biehl, Michael ^a   Blanck, Zalmen ^a   Dhala, Anwer ^a   Jazayeri, Mohammad R ^a   Deshpande, Sanjay ^a   Akhtar, Masood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

^b Wisconsin Electrophysiology Group   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial defibrillation; Atrial fibrillation; Reinitiation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CORONARY SINUS; DEFIBRILLATION; DEVICE; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; MALE; SINUS RHYTHM;

ADULT; AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTRODES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0031968545     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1998.tb00157.x     Document Type: Article

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