Acceleration of typical atrial flutter due to double-wave reentry induced by programmed electrical stimulation

Circulation

Volumn 97, Issue 16, 1998, Pages 1589-1596

  Cheng, Jie ^b   Scheinman, Melvin M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Electrical stimulation; Reentry; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REFRACTORY PERIOD;

EID: 0032574678     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.97.16.1589     Document Type: Article

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