Wide complex tachycardia: What is the mechanism?

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 107-109

  Vijayaraman, Pugazhendhi ^a   Kok, Lai Chow ^a   Rhee, Bunhi ^a   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOBUTAMINE; PROCAINAMIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVERSION; CASE REPORT; CONGESTIVE CARDIOMYOPATHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; DIZZINESS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUSHING; HEART ARREST; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART TRANSPLANTATION; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; MALE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; SINUS RHYTHM; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CARDIOMYOPATHY, DILATED; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGIC TECHNIQUES, CARDIAC; HEART CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 12144277341     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.08.010     Document Type: Article

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