Noninvasive assessment of acute changes in atrial electrophysiology after cardioversion by signal-averaged P-wave electrocardiography

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 135-139

  Elesber, Ahmad A ^a   Rosales, Ana Gabriela ^b   Shen, Win Kuang ^a   Malouf, Joseph F ^a   Hodge, David O ^b   Ammash, Naser M ^a   Chandrasekaran, Krishnaswamy ^a   Gersh, Bernard J ^a   Hammill, Stephen C ^a   Friedman, Paul A ^a,b  

^a Mayo Clinic   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Atrial fibrillation; Cardioversion; Remodeling; Signal averaged P wave

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CARDIOVERSION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; P WAVE; SIGNAL AVERAGED ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

AGED; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ELECTRIC COUNTERSHOCK; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 20044391213     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.09478.x     Document Type: Article

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