Peak endocardial acceleration reflects heart contractility also in atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1381-1385

  Bombardini, Tonino ^a,d   Gaggini, Guido ^b   Marcelli, Emanuela ^a   Parlapiano, Mario ^c   Plicchi, Gianni ^a  

^a Biomedical Technology Department   (Italy)

^b Cyberonics Inc   (Italy)

^c Policlinico S Orsola ^*

^d UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Contractility; Peak endocardial acceleration

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCARDIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; HEART SOUND; IMPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; RR INTERVAL; SHEEP; SINUS RHYTHM;

EID: 0033661858     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00966.x     Document Type: Article

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