The response of the slow atrioventricular nodal pathway to temperature

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 427-432

  Kawabata, Mihoko ^a,b   Hirao, Kenzo ^a   Toshida, Nobuo ^a   Suzuki, Fumio ^a   Hiejima, Kazumasa ^b  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Junctional beat; Radiofrequency catheter ablation; Slow pathway; Temperature

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ACCESSORY CONDUCTION PATHWAY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HUMAN; MALE; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0032977551     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.63.427     Document Type: Article

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