Transient entrainment of bundle-branch reentry by atrial and ventricular stimulation: Elucidation of the tachycardia mechanism through analysis of the surface ECG

Circulation

Volumn 100, Issue 17, 1999, Pages 1784-1790

  Merino, Jose L ^a   Peinado, Rafael ^a   Fernández Lozano, Ignacio ^a   Sobrino, Nicolas ^a   Sobrino, Jose A ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ablation; Bundle branch block; Electrophysiology; Entrainment; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ATROPINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIDROMIC STIMULATION; ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART LEFT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HIS BUNDLE; HIS BUNDLE ELECTROGRAM; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE FIBER; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS RHYTHM; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0032749144     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.100.17.1784     Document Type: Article

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