Body surface mapping during pacing at multiple sites in the human atrium: P-wave morphology of ectopic right atrial activation

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 369-380

  SippensGroenewegen, Arne ^b   Peeters, Heidi A P ^c   Jessurun, Emile R ^a   Linnenbank, Andre C ^c   Robles de Medina, Etienne O ^c   Lesh, Michael D ^c   Van Hemel, Norbert M ^a  

^a ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Mapping; Morphogenesis; Pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY SURFACE POTENTIAL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; M MODE ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; P WAVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TWO DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0032477684     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.4.369     Document Type: Article

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