Effects of adenosine on local stimulus-response latency and induction of atrial fibrillation by premature stimuli

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1378-1385

  Corbisiero, Raffaele ^a   Kabell, Glenn ^a   Cook, James R ^a   Fitzgerald, Thomas F ^a   Kirchhoffer, James B ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adenosine; Atrial fibrillation; Latency

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE POTENTIAL; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STIMULATION; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LATENT PERIOD; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ADENOSINE; ADULT; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HUMANS; REACTION TIME; TACHYCARDIA, SUPRAVENTRICULAR;

EID: 0032848930     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00632.x     Document Type: Article

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