From bedside to bench: Entrainment and other stories

Heart Rhythm

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 94-106

  Waldo, Albert L ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Entrainment; Rapid pacing; Reentry; Tachycardias

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CORONARY SINUS; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART ATRIUM PACING; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE TACHYCARDIA; HUMAN; OPEN HEART SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QRS COMPLEX; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; RELIABILITY; SUPRAVENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA;

ARRHYTHMIA; ATRIAL FLUTTER; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; HUMANS; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY; TACHYCARDIA, VENTRICULAR;

EID: 2442595668     PISSN: 15475271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2004.02.002     Document Type: Article

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