Use of global atrial fibrillation organization to optimize the success of burst pace termination

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1831-1840

  Everett IV, Thomas H ^a   Akar, Joseph G ^b   Kok, Lai Chow ^b   Moorman, J Randall ^b   Haines, David E ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOG; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME;

ANIMALS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOGS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART ATRIA; MODELS, CARDIOVASCULAR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037145937     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(02)02476-2     Document Type: Article

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