Patient with atrioventricular node reentrant tachycardia with eccentric retrograde left-sided activation. Treatment with radiofrequency catheter ablation

Japanese Heart Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 227-234

  Sakabe, Koichi ^a   Wakatsuki, Tetsuzo ^a   Fujinaga, Hiroyuki ^a   Oishi, Yoshifumi ^a   Ikata, Jiro ^a   Toyoshima, Toshihiro ^a   Hiura, Norikazu ^a   Nishikado, Akiyoshi ^a   Oki, Takashi ^a   Ito, Susumu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKUSHIMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node reentrant tachycardia; Eccentric retrograde left sided atrial activation; Radiofrequency catheter ablation; Triple atrioventricular nodal pathways

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY SINUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0034108905     PISSN: 00214868     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1536/jhj.41.227     Document Type: Article

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