Demonstration of a left atrial input to the atrioventricular node in humans

Circulation

Volumn 106, Issue 23, 2002, Pages 2930-2934

  Gonzalez, Mario D ^a   Contreras, Leonardo J ^a   Cardona, Francisco ^a   Klugewicz, Christopher J ^a   Conti, Jamie B ^a   Curtis, Anne B ^a   Morey, Timothy E ^a   Dennis, Donn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Atrium; Conduction; Electrophysiology; Mapping

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART LEFT ATRIUM; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART STIMULATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HIS BUNDLE; HUMAN; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIAL FUNCTION; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 0037016041     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.0000041000.94343.28     Document Type: Article

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