Effect of slow pathway ablation in atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia on the electrophysiologic characteristics of the inferior atrial inputs to the human atrioventricular node

American Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 860-865

  Katritsis, Demosthenes G ^a   Becker, Anton E ^b   Ellenbogen, Kenneth A ^c   Giazitzoglou, Eleftherios ^a   Korovesis, Socrates ^a   Camm, A John ^d  

^a Athens Euroclinic ^*  (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATHETER ABLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART ATRIUM; HEART ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HEART MUSCLE CONDUCTION SYSTEM; HEART PACING; HIS BUNDLE ELECTROGRAM; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REENTRY ARRHYTHMIA; REENTRY TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT;

ADULT; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; BUNDLE OF HIS; CARDIAC PACING, ARTIFICIAL; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TACHYCARDIA, ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODAL REENTRY;

EID: 33644599051     PISSN: 00029149     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2005.09.135     Document Type: Article

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