Atrial fibrillatory frequency predicts atrial defibrillation threshold and early arrhythmia recurrence in patients undergoing internal cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2002, Pages 1179-1184

  Bollmann, Andreas ^a   Mende, Maika ^a   Neugebauer, Annerose ^a   Pfeiffer, Dietrich ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MAGDEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Defibrillation threshold; ECG signal processing; Internal cardioversion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEFIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; ENERGY; FEMALE; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; MALE; PREDICTION; QRS COMPLEX; R WAVE; RECURRENT DISEASE;

EID: 0036693602     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2002.01179.x     Document Type: Article

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