Bundle-branch reentry and the postpacing interval after entrainment by right ventricular apex stimulation: A new approach to elucidate the mechanism of wide-QRS-complex tachycardia with atrioventricular dissociation

Circulation

Volumn 103, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1102-1108

  Merino, Jose L ^a,b   Peinado, Rafael ^a   Fernandez Lozano, Ignacio ^a   Lopez Gil, Maria ^a   Arribas, Fernando ^a   Ramirez, Leonardo J ^a   Echeverria, Ignacio J ^a   Sobrino, Jose A ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

Author keywords

Ablation; Bundle branch block; Electrophysiology; Entrainment; Tachycardia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR DISSOCIATION; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; MECHANOCARDIOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; TACHYCARDIA;

EID: 0035957043     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.103.8.1102     Document Type: Article

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