Effects of septal pacing on P wave characteristics: The value of three-dimensional echocardiography

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 1 II, 2003, Pages 253-256

  Szili Torok, Tamas ^a   Bruining, Nico ^a   Scholten, Marcoen ^a   Kimman, Geert Jan ^a   Roelandt, Jos ^a   Jordaens, Luc ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Atrial mapping; Echocardiography; Septal pacing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BREATHING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM CONDUCTION; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE SEPTUM; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; P WAVE; SINUS RHYTHM; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; ULTRASOUND TRANSDUCER;

EID: 0037250191     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00027.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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