The acute effects of biatrial pacing on atrial depolarization and repolarization

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1113-1120

  Gilligan, David M ^a,b   Fuller, Ithiel A ^a   Clemo, Henry F ^a   Shepard, Richard K ^a   Dan, Dan ^a   Wood, Mark A ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial electrophysiology; Atrial fibrillation; Biatrial pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM CONTRACTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RHYTHM; HUMAN; MALE; P WAVE;

EID: 0033926904     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2000.tb00911.x     Document Type: Article

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