Unexpected AV block during cavotricuspid isthmus ablation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2005, Pages 980-981

  Posan, Emoke ^a   Skanes, Allan C ^a   Gula, Lorne J ^a   Klein, George J ^a   Yee, Raymond ^a   Krahn, Andrew D ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ATROPINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATRIOVENTRICULAR BLOCK; ATRIOVENTRICULAR CONDUCTION; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CATHETER ABLATION; CAVOTRICUSPID ISTHMUS ABLATION; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART ATRIUM FLUTTER; HEART MUSCLE INJURY; HEART MUSCLE ISCHEMIA; HUMAN; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; VAGUS TONE; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; HEART BLOCK; MIDDLE AGED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; ATRIAL FLUTTER; ATRIOVENTRICULAR NODE; CATHETER ABLATION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 33644669150     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: 15408159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2005.00201.x     Document Type: Article

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