Direct discrimination and full-day disclosure of ventricular parasystole on new heart rate tachograms

Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 168-177

  Takayanagi, Kan ^a,c   Tanaka, Kazuhiko ^a   Kamishirado, Hirotoshi ^a   Sakai, Yoshihiko ^a   Fujito, Tsuneo ^a   Inoue, Teruo ^a   Hayashi, Terumi ^a   Morooka, Shigenori ^a   Ikeda, Noriaki ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c DOKKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Heart rate tachograms; Ventricular parasystole; Ventricular premature complex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RR INTERVAL;

EID: 0033976755     PISSN: 10453873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8167.2000.tb00316.x     Document Type: Article

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