Time course and predictors of autonomic dysfunction after ablation of the slow atrioventricular nodal pathway

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 1638-1643

  Markowitz, Steven M ^a,b   Christini, David J ^a   Stein, Kenneth M ^a   Mittal, Suneet ^a   Iwai, Sei ^a   Slotwiner, David J ^a   Lerman, Bruce B ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular node; Heart rate variability; Isoproterenol; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

ISOPRENALINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION; CATHETER ABLATION; CHOLINERGIC TRANSMISSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DENERVATION; EFFERENT NERVE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; INNERVATION; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARASYMPATHETIC NERVE CELL; PREDICTION;

ADULT; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; CARDIOTONIC AGENTS; CATHETER ABLATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HALF-LIFE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISOPROTERENOL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REMISSION, SPONTANEOUS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; VAGUS NERVE;

EID: 11144301823     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2004.00697.x     Document Type: Article

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