Temporary atrial electrode for the treatment of supraventricular tachycardia after cardiac operations

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 632-636

  Mehmanesh, Hormoz ^a   Lange, Rüdiger ^a   Hagl, Siegfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLITEF;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEFIBRILLATION; DEVICE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DEFIBRILLATORS, IMPLANTABLE; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 0032033306     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(97)01350-7     Document Type: Article

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