Mode switching failure during atrial flutter: The '2:1 lock-in' phenomenon

Europace

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 95-102

  Goethals, M ^a   Timmermans, W ^a   Geelen, P ^a   Backers, J ^a   Brugada, P ^a  

^a CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Atrial flutter; Dual chamber pacemakers; Mode switching failure

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL;

EID: 0037251638     PISSN: 10995129     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/eupc.2002.0281     Document Type: Article

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