Automatic Beat-to-Beat Left Heart AV Normalization: Is It Possible?

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 26, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2103-2110

  Chirife, Raúl ^a,b   Tentori, María Cristina ^a   Mazzetti, Héctor ^a   Dasso, Daniel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL JUAN A FERNÁNDEZ   (Argentina)

^b NONE   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Automatic AV; AV optimization; Left AV

Indexed keywords

A WAVE; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART BEAT; HEART DISEASE; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART VENTRICLE PACING; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; P WAVE; QRS COMPLEX; SINUS NODE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REFERENCE VALUES; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, LEFT;

EID: 0242636815     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9592.2003.00327.x     Document Type: Article

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