Single Radiofrequency Application to Cure Atrioventricular Nodal Reentry: Arguments for the Slow Pathway Origin of the High-Low Frequency Slow Potentials

Journal of Interventional Cardiac Electrophysiology

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-86

  Klug, Didier ^a,b   Lacroix, Dominique ^a   Le Franc, Pierre ^a   Ameur, Youssef Ben ^a   Kouakam, Claude ^a   Kacet, Salem ^a   Lekieffre, Jean ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b Hôpital Cadiologique de Lille   (France)

Author keywords

Atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia; Radiofrequency ablation

Indexed keywords

EID: 2342480609     PISSN: 1383875X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009773025599     Document Type: Article

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