Physiological Hypotheses on Heart Rate Turbulence

Dynamic Electrocardiography

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 203-210

  Voss, Andreas ^a   Baier, Vico ^a   Schirdewan, Alexander ^b   Leder, Uwe ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES JENA   (Germany)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arrhythmias; Heart rate; Heart rate turbulence (HRT); Phenylephrine; Physiological mechanisms

Indexed keywords

EID: 33644780587     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470987483.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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