Relations between monophasic action potential duration and refractoriness after cardioversion of persistent atrial fibrillation: Results in wash-out and amiodarone-treated patients

Italian Heart Journal

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 257-263

  Pandozi, Claudio ^a   Gentilucci, Giuseppe ^a   Calò, Leonardo ^a   Castro, Antonio ^a   Lamberti, Filippo ^a   Loricchio, Maria Luisa ^a   Santini, Luca ^a   Magris, Barbara ^a   Bulava, Alan ^a   Peichl, Petr ^a   Santini, Massimo ^a  

^a SAN FILIPPO NERI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action potentials; Atrial fibrillation; Electrophysiology

Indexed keywords

AMIODARONE;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE REFRACTORY PERIOD; HEART REPOLARIZATION; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PATIENT CARE; SINUS RHYTHM; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGED; AMIODARONE; ANTI-ARRHYTHMIA AGENTS; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10744223818     PISSN: 1129471X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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